Word: spigots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Carolina Maria de Jesus, a tall Negro woman with three illegitimate children, each by a different man, lived in a teeming favela (slum) in São Paulo. At dawn she queued up for water at a public spigot, an empty oil can on her head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack...