Word: boa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hunner-heidit boa-constrictor snake...
Reveille is sounded before daybreak by transistor radios blasting out the morning news. At their irregular meals, the men eat rice or boiled starchy roots, dried codfish or bananas, sometimes boa constrictor or raccoon. They march, often dry and thirsty, through the hot midday. Castro moves along with them, joshing his men, examining their weapons, dressing-down laggards...
...were said against Christ and me," shouted Alziro Zarur on the air in Rio de Janeiro. For all the bad things a lot of people are saying about Zarur, the plump, balding, 43-year-old writer is running the fastest-growing new religious movement in Brazil. Its name is Boa Von-tade (Good Will), but it might as well be Bonanza. With the cruzeiros rolling in, the movement owns a Rio de Janeiro radio station, two magazines (total circ. 200,000), choice Rio real estate, and claim's more than a quarter million followers...
Nationally speaking, most farmers are not that foolhardy-if only because they may continue to need help to extricate themselves from the contradictory kind of help that now holds them like a solicitous boa constrictor. But city dwellers and farmers alike should realize that every clay the present program continues-to the tune of $5 billion a year-the situation is going to get worse...
...City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station WRCA to become its first roving radio-TV reporter. "I've covered everything from the Andrea Doria sinking to the catching of a boa constrictor in a Bronx supermarket," says Pressman, who packs a 20-lb. tape recorder as habitually as a city room legman packs a batch of copy paper. "I'm not out to prove I'm superman but to show there's a need in radio and television for on-the-spot coverage...