Ibarruri
Britishnoun
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At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years.
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Dolores Ibarruri, called "La Pasionaria," born the daughter of a coalminer, worked as a washerwoman.
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The secrecy and subterfuge were part of a deal between the Spanish Communists and the government, which, in return for issuing Ibarruri her passport, insisted on discretion to avoid violent reactions from Spanish rightists.
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There were such old war-hens of the party as the U.S.'s grandmotherly Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 71, and overblown Dolores Ibarruri, the famed La Pasionaria of the Spanish Civil War.
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Dolores Ibarruri, 68, the firebrand who was known as La Pasionaria in the Spanish Civil War, now looks like someone's kind old grandmother.
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