Word: cacha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...else-the rich and the poor, old and young-shucked street clothes and inhibitions and donned everything from jeweled and satin costumes at $5,000 to sequined bikinis, hand towels, burlap sacks and burnooses, and went out. Thousands of bottles of liquor, from Scotch to Brazil's own cachaça, distilled from sugar cane, vanished down thousands of dance-parched throats. In the streets, in the hotels and public halls, they shimmied and shook to the 2,650 songs composed for carnival. They drifted in and out of the city's uncounted thousands of parties, drinking, dancing...