Word: bora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along Yugoslavia's wild coast of Dalmatia, the test of a man is his ability to pull an oar. In the balmy Adriatic summer the test comes rarely. But in winter, the cold bora wind sweeps down from the mountains, battering the little fishing boats with gusts that reach 120 m.p.h., and the lives of the whole crew depend on their oars...
...four-oared boats. But two winters ago, when Ivica was 68, his sons Vicko and Ivo came to him one day with an ultimatum: he must stay home because, unable to pull his weight, he endangered not only his own life but theirs, if the bora struck...
...sooner had Vidali read Comrade Khrushchev's fulsome apology to ex-Comrade Tito last week than he was ready with a counterblast that denied it all. "Our surprise at that statement," wrote Vidali, "has been enormous. Our party has been shaken ... in the same way that the bora [a cold wind from Yugoslavia] shakes our trees...
...first: John Kirkland (1810-28), bora near Little Falls, N.Y., but reared in Massachusetts...
...muzzle the press. Recently he began attacking the government, which has formally decreed press freedom, for underhandedly backing a paper, Ultima Hora (TIME, Aug. 17). Lacerda exposed the paper's link with the government, campaigned against it in his paper and on radio and TV until Ultima Bora's editor was forced to resign. (Another result of the battle: circulation of Lacerda's paper jumped fourfold-to 45,000-and he became one of Brazil's most popular radio and TV personalities...