Word: braziller
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nippita, who worked in the fairly remote city of Goiania in central Brazil, remembers particularly one day-trip to a lake six hours north of the city...
...because it is so slow. Sergeants here bristle but rarely bite; privates a few weeks ahead of you are generous with their time, anecdotes and advice. But they are as angry as we are. Those on active duty want to get where?they are going after boot camp, Brazil or Germany or wherever. Reserves feel a sharper pain, though; two weeks down the drain like this seems time truly wasted, coming directly out of their civilian lives...
Brown continued its second-half domination, keeping the ball deep in Harvard territory. The Bears scored again with 5 minutes remaining as Marcio redirected a cross in mid-air into the back of the Crimson net. Marcio, a junior forward from Brazil, is the Ivy goals and points leader...
...sort of postmodern James Bond villain--one part Goldfinger, one part Woody Allen. He had eluded authorities for four months while traveling with a retinue of women, as rumors spread of his living large while lying low. Law-enforcement officials at first suspected that he was in Israel, then Brazil, and finally admitted they had no idea where...
...remote places like Antarctica still exist as true wilderness: the Queen Elizabeth Islands in the Canadian Arctic, pockets of the Mato Grosso bush in central Brazil, bits of the Tibetan Plateau. Much of this wilderness is so huge and empty and emphatically inhospitable that it is difficult to picture its ever succumbing to the crush of civilization. But the same could have been said of the Grand Canyon in 1869, when John Wesley Powell braved murderous rapids and myriad other hazards to become the first man to navigate the Colorado River...