Word: brazil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brazil; When asked whence she hailed She blushed and then wailed Not Brazil, not Bray-zul, but Bray...
...opinion as a native of Kokomo (rhymes with ho-ho-ho) is that a rhyming dictionary ain't a good thing to tour Indiana with. In that state, where Peru rhymes with Pee-roo, Brazil rhymes not so much with Hazel as Bray-zill...
Having spent 20 years uv my life bein' razed up in the tuff atmosfere uv Clay Caounty's Brazil (pronounced bra as in brassière, z as in zebra, il as in ill), I think I can say TIME erred. The atmosfere ain't tuff, and the peepul ain't either...
...Senate, Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper (to India) and New Jersey's Robert Hendrickson (to New Zealand); an ex-governor, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge (to Spain); and six well seasoned career men, including James Dunn, a veteran of the Rome, Paris and Madrid embassies (to Brazil), James Bonbright, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (to Portugal), and Henry Byroade, razor-sharp former Assistant Secretary of State and Army brigadier general (to Egypt). By and large, these appointments signal a healthy upgrading of the nation's foreign representation...
...Paulo Banker Herbert Levy told fretful U.S. businessmen to quit worrying about losing money. Snapped Levy: previous U.S. investors in Brazil have made "excellent profits." In Brazil, he said, "U.S. investors have received $230 million more than they had actually invested...