Word: comba
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hiqh-Button Boots. The son of the bailiff of a large farm in the Santa Comba Dão country of central Portugal, Salazar studied for a law degree at the University of Coimbra and stayed on to become a professor of economics and finance. In 1928 he became Finance Minister with extremely broad powers to control the economy and government as well, but he still looked like a provincial schoolteacher in his bowler hat and high-button boots...