Word: bragan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nola, 64, a monocled, swashbuckling counterinsurgency hero turned reformer-has pledged to form a provisional government this week. As that deadline approached, no fewer than 54 different political parties, ranging from Maoist splinter groups on the left to monarchists favoring the restoration of the House of Bragança on the right, stepped up their jockeying for influence. All wanted to be part of the interim coalition that will govern Portugal until general elections are held next spring...
...playing with a black that at the beginning of the season they had jointly petitioned Rickey to trade them if he was going to play Robinson. However, by the end of the season, the attitude of these players towards Robinson had changed substantially. As one of them, Bobby Bragan, recalls: "Sure, there were five or six of us who resented Robinson's joining the team. But, by that fall, when the Series checks were being passed out, Dixie Walker and Ed Head and all of us who were there, we had our hands out just as big as the next...
...JAMES BRAGAN Peru...