Word: cintra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months later for his part in a student rebellion against compulsory smallpox vaccination. A government amnesty let him return. Two years after graduation he was a cavalry lieutenant, apparently destined for the usual army career-25 years a captain, then retirement. Then he met & married Dona Carmela Leite de Cintra...
...morning the retainer answered the door, was told by a swarthy, heavy-browed man: "I am Dr. Salazar. Please announce me to the Countess of Sarre."*Thus Maria Jose, Italy's Queen for May, and her four children arrived in exile at Cintra, and were greeted by Portugal's Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar...
...covered Rolls-Royces, tattered fugitives from Axis terror, arrogant diplomats and businessmen from Italy and Germany crowded the narrow streets of her aged, smelly towns. Over the lavish seaside resort of Estoril the wide-winged U.S. Clippers glided down to Lisbon's Tagus River and at the inland Cintra airport planes of the Lufthansa and the British Airways stood side by side. Portugal was open to all warring nations. Neutrality was profitable and, if one did not look too closely, respectable...
Died. Sebastian Cardinal Lame da Silveira Cintra, 60; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. He was made Cardinal in 1930, the same year intervened in the revolution that put Getulio Vargas in power, was credited with saving the life of incumbent Washington Luis. While the revolutionaries' guns were trained on Guanabara Palace where President Luis had holed up for a stand to the death, the Cardinal gained entrance, found Luis, talked to him for half an hour, persuaded him to abdicate...