Word: rizal
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Manila's Rizal Stadium was the scene of the Second Asiad, and a few Filipinos had trouble forgetting that the Japanese had holed up in that very spot for a last-ditch stand during the liberation of Manila in World War II. But such memories were soon drowned by roars of approval for the Japanese performances. One of the stars of the meet was a slender (5 ft. 4 in., 116 lbs.) 19-year-old Japanese girl named Atsuko Nambu, who won the 100-meter event, placed second at 200 meters and in the broad jump, and anchored...
Filipinos had a chance to vote their minds without fear of revenge or having their votes disqualified. The Filipinos made up their own minds. No man since the great Filipino patriot. Jose Rizal, has so captured the Filipino fancy and fired the Filipino imagination as the rugged (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) man from Zambales. He displays emotions and utters words which might seem corny and insincere in more sophisticated men. In more than 1.500 villages and cities, he laughed, ate, mingled with and talked to the voters. "I love to shake the hands-the dirty hands -with...
...like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given his countrymen the homogeneity to make a common fight...
...Rizal was executed for his ardor in 1896-a Spanish act that fixed Rizal, and freedom, forever in the Filipino mind. The same year, Spain was chastising others of its colonists-the Cubans. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny, indignant over the spectacle of Spanish soldiers hunting defenseless, freedom-loving Cubans in the hills, glowered and tugged. In Congress and in the torch-lighted squares, war fever mounted...
...moved down Avenue Rizal civilians mobbed our vehicles, cheering and offering us portions of their meager food supplies. The women were weeping while the men saluted and children squealed in delight. But the Santo Tomas reception was even more delirious...