Word: futbol
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard as they went in. Blue-cheeked children huddle inside the windowless, dirt-floored, one-room hut to escape the biting mountain wind. Within are a bed, two chairs, and a four-inch figure of the Infant Jesus on a homemade altar; magazine pictures of bathing beauties, futbol players and stern-faced priests are tacked indiscriminately around the walls. The house has no water or sanitary facilities; the nearest public bath is six miles away, but Sabino and his wife have not visited it this year. The only sign of civilization that the second biggest tin mine in Bolivia...
...General Confederation of Labor (C.G.T.), provincial workers were beginning to stream into the capital. Transportation by train, plane, ship or bus was free. When the great day came, free buses and taxis would be waiting at piers and railway stations. Also free to the visitors: food, drinks, futbol games, boxing matches, variety shows, movies...