Word: violeta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This, says Catalino, is just about enough to pay the bills. With his wife Violeta and their two-year-old son, he lives in two rooms (rent: $18 a month) in the working class barrio of Jesus del Monte. Most days Catalino comes home to a dinner of beans and rice, and Sundays, before going out to the ball game, he favors arroz con polio. But rice is almost as scarce as meat these days, and lately Violeta has filled out the meal with vegetables...
...forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite so often as Violeta. Although he reads the Communist Hoy for its detailed waterfront news coverage, Catalino does not yet share with the Communist leaders of his union their hatred for the U.S. He thinks the U.S. is the greatest country in the world and wants to go there-when his union...
Exit Laughing. In Chile Island, Chile, Narcisco Quezada and Friend Violeta Munoz confessed that they had tied Violeta's husband to a table, tickled his feet until he choked to death with laughter...