Word: ant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world headlines in an eleven-day protest against the regime last January, plans a coup in Portugal itself...
...ranged from monarchists to socialists and old-guard liberals, disenchanted doctors and lawyers to army and navy officers. The opposition platform, which the government labeled "unconstitutional," called for democratic rights, economic progress and an enlightened colonial policy. But the opposition's main target was 72-year-old António de Oliveira Salazar, for as one candidate exclaimed: "The government's only hope is that Salazar is immortal. Like Hitler and Mussolini, this regime is holding out to the bitter moment when all crashes about...
...afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...
...memebers of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's tame Parliament...
Schorer praised Tropic of Cancer for its energy, and its theme: "the value of life exists in the act of living." The book is a work of art written in the spirit of ant art, he said; the autobiographical "I" divests himself of all, in order to live, just as Miller the writer destroys literary convention in order to write...