Word: santo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discernment and honesty, Dean J. A. Bonilla Atiles of the University of Santo Domingo's law school refused to plump for Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's reelection...
...very fortunate to escape from the Dictator's assassins," said Bonilla in Manhattan last week. "The ceremony of murder in Santo Domingo is usually more efficient." When Oppositionist Servio Fuentes was shot down on the street recently, the Government ambulance was standing nearby, the grave was dug and waiting...
...action on Bataan with a combat engineers outfit known as "Casey's Dynamiters," was captured, subjected to the rigors of the "March of Death," and eventually confined at Cabanatuan. Gertrude Hornbostel might have escaped internment. She spurned the chance and spent three years in the filthy hell of Santo Tomas. In February 1945 they were reunited. Her health had been impaired by malnutrition and beriberi. But the Hornbostels feared something worse...
...quiet, palm-edged cemetery at Guadalcanal went the bodies of soldiers, sailors and marines once buried in the Russells, Espiritu Santo and Tulagi. Men who died as prisoners in scattered, Jap-held islets of the Marshalls, soldiers who fell at Makin, marines who died to take Roi and Namur will be moved to the cemetery on Ennylabegan, in the south of Kwajalein Atoll...
They were still there when Manila fell. They were interned in Santo Tomás prison. Shelley describes what followed as 21 months of "constant, oozing fear." She became a monitor of the women's room, a member of the sanitation committee, one of the detail which picked the weevils out of the cereal. Eventually transferred to another internment camp in Shanghai, she was repatriated with her husband aboard the exchange ship Gripsholm, in December...