Word: corazon
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...moved in only two months earlier - Merlita Gargullo, 22, who had brought with her from Manila a pair of native clacking poles with which she performed a "bamboo dance" at parties; Valentina Pasion, 23, who wrote home that she wished she could stay in America forever; and Corazon Amurao, 22. Like her two paisanas, Corazon (whose nickname was "Zony"), a shy, modest country girl from rural Batangas province some 60 miles from Manila, was still bewildered by the clatter and bustle of the strange American city...
...Amurao was sleeping, he knocked on her door. Politely, she opened it. "A man was standing there," she recalled. "The first thing I noticed about him was the strong odor of alcohol." He had a small black pistol in one hand, a butcher knife in the other. Then, continued Corazon, "he made me go down the hall to a middle bedroom. He stopped at this bedroom and awakened three girls there. He made the four of us go into the back bedroom, where two other girls were sleeping. He said he wouldn't hurt us, he just wanted money...
...much," said Miss Amurao. "He made them lie on the floor with the rest of us." Before binding and gagging each girl, the tormenter asked where she kept her money-but took pains to put his prisoners at ease. "He sat on the floor with them," said Corazon. "He indicated he was in need of money. They gave him money and thought that would satisfy him. They obviously had no idea what was in his mind...
...sounds of a Christmas carol rehearsal (40 boys, eight girls). The Unreachables were, to be sure, a little short on harmony, but anybody who watched and listened could sense that Jim Vaus and Pete Thomas were infusing the lives of the tough kids with something very much like puro corazon...
...minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...