Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an eight man team from Dunster House reaching at their ever elusive bodies as they flew toward the goal line or the safety of the sidelines, a twelve-amazon clutch football lineup seemed to be enjoying every minute of the familiar chase...
Carol and his Magda, still exiling in Brazil, made a rare public appearance to goggle at royalty. The high-styled Braganzas, descendants of Brazil's second and last Emperor Dom Pedro II, were staging a circus. Dom João tamed lions, Princess Tereza played an Amazon, a couple of other princesses rode bareback. (The Brazilian Air Minister's nephew tried riding an elephant, but fell off and sprained his elbow.) Dom Pedro Henrique, the Pretender himself, boycotted the show: he was squabbling with the family over money matters...
...World War II, Brazil transported two armies. One sailed to Italy and fought, returned to a heroes' acclaim. Another, an 18,000-strong labor army, went north to the Amazon to gather rubber for a needy Ally-and never came back. By last week, its disappearance was a major national scandal...
...story began in 1942, when the U.S., shut off from the East Indies, wanted natural rubber at any cost.*Brazil was a possible source. Contracts were signed with the Brazilian Government, which, for $100 a head, agreed to round up and carry workers to the Amazon. Glowing advertisements brought in many a drought-ridden farmer of Brazil's Northeast. Others were shanghaied...
...Belem, mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...