Word: brazilianizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history when he was a junior faculty member. Now he has a brilliant reputation and a tenured position at Harvard that the History Department had wanted to fill for 14 years. But not everyone is so successful. Thomas E. Skidmore made a giant leap from medieval European history to Brazilian and South American history. He is now at the University of Wisconsin...
...American countries to give women the vote (in 1932), but not until 1962 did the Congress strike down the old civil code provisions that put married women on an equal footing with prodigals, savages, minors and the insane. Antidiscrimination laws are on the books, but they are not enforced; Brazilian women are paid about 70% of what men are given for the same jobs...
When the U.S. and Brazil began their latest round of talks on American fishing rights in Brazilian coastal waters three months ago, Brazil's Minister Ronaldo Costa hummed a few bars of a popular samba for U.S. Ambassador Donald McKernan...
...just that. Up to 160 American-owned vessels at a time will be allowed to fish the rich shrimp waters along Brazil's coast. The U.S. accepted Brazil's right to board, search and seize shrimp boats that have committed infractions. Furthermore the U.S. will pay the Brazilian government $200,000 to help defray the costs of surveillance...
...Frank Hatch, an American dancer now studying capoeira in Salvador, the growth of the folk art is only natural. "Brazilians are very proud of their mental quickness," he says. "They like to live by their wits; capoeira is not a sport of brute force but rather of outwitting the other fellow." Agrees Bimba: "Capoeira is something truly Brazilian-it's our own blend...