Word: aqui
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From cluttered counters at the curbs, salesmen chanted: "Chega aqui, chega aqui" (stop here, stop here). Grinning Mineiros bought spun candy, tapir skins, plastic belts, holy pictures, soccer balls, coconut-milk gum. By the thousands they surged across the little bridge over the Maranhão river, and milled up the three-quarter-mile hill in sluggish serpentine. The town bank advertised: "We change money for alms...
...depressed last week by import-export figures could rest his eyes, if not his mind, by contemplating other more pleasing figures. As summer ended, bathing girls, changeless in a changing world, paraded Argentine beaches competing for titles. Amid the crash of falling empires, the porteño rotogravure magazine Aqui Está (Here It Is) climactically chose a Queen, photographically fanfared (see cut) Señorita Leda Zorda as "Miss Summer 1942." To a world at war, however, Grizodubova (see p. 27) seemed more nearly appropriate as 1942's type...