Word: bemformoso
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...freedom of the press and free elections for a new National Assembly. After a few days' hesitation, opposition groups which had scarcely suspected one another's existence came out of the underground. Two weeks after the proclamation, in a rented schoolroom on Lisbon's Rua do Bemformoso, the first meeting of the Movimento Unidade Democratica (M.U.D.) was held. Much to M.U.D.'s surprise, supporters poured in by the thousands. Every paper except two Government sheets supported M.U.D. in a campaign of invective against Salazar, who was shocked by the hatred he had fomented by 20 years...
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