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Still, parts of the US are quite receptive: Often called descansos, a Spanish word for 'resting places,' roadside memorials are most common in the American Southwest.
Archive 2006-02-01 2006
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Still, parts of the US are quite receptive: Often called descansos, a Spanish word for 'resting places,' roadside memorials are most common in the American Southwest.
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In the Southwest, and increasingly elsewhere, they are known as "descansos," Spanish for "places of rest."
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Granted, there is still ample time for recreos, lunch and descansos.
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I recited the _descansos_ as I walked, telling the rosary of my life, but it didn't seem real any more, as if all the pain and the love and the loss had happened to someone else, or had never happened at all.
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My grandmother told me that in the borderlands I must tell the _descansos_, the litany of life and loss, as often as I can.
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Ha llovido por cuatro días consecutivos con breves descansos, el cielo parecía no contenerse y caía agua de forma estrepitosa.
Global Voices Online Juan Arellano 2010
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Ha llovido por cuatro días consecutivos con breves descansos, el cielo parecía no contenerse y caía agua de forma estrepitosa.
Global Voices Online 2010
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Members suggest using one of two power tools to cut through the most durable of roadside memorials, known locally as descansos.
KOB.com - Home 2010
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Ha llovido por cuatro días consecutivos con breves descansos, el cielo parecía no contenerse y caía agua de forma estrepitosa.
Elites TV Global Voices Online 2010
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