Word: copacabana
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...Eighteen of the Fort marched the length of Copacabana's Avenida Atlantica to meet more than 2,000 loyal troops armed with machine guns and small cannon. The Eighteen took to the beach, dug trenches in the sand, made one of the bravest stands in the history of any army. One by one they were picked off-some killed outright, some desperately wounded. Octavio Corrêa was one of the first to die; his blue suit made him an easy mark...
...Brazilians had finished celebrating U. S. Independence Day (declared a holiday that year by President Epitacio Pessôa), the people of Rio de Janeiro were awakened by the boom of cannon, the rattle of machine guns, the noise of troops tramping through the streets. News spread that Fort Copacabana had revolted, was shelling Rio's other forts and the Ministry of War. Artillery Lieutenant Siqueira Campos became the first hero of the Revolution of 1922 by dropping a shell squarely into a wing of the Ministry of War, in the heart of the city, six miles from Copacabana...
...Revolution of 1922, first of a series of uprisings, lasted only a few hours. The rest of the Army remained loyal and Fort Copacabana was surrounded. After holding out for four hours, the commander of the Fort, whose name has long since been for gotten, decided to surrender. The Fort's flag was hauled down...
Reassured, T. R. H. plunged again into a round of sports, balls, nightclubbing and worse. By "worse" is meant the escapade of Prince George. Having bathed at Copacabana Beach last week he walked out of the water, removed the upper half of his suit, lay down Gandhi-like on the sand...
...reception room where General Tasso Fragaso, head of the military junta, pronounced him in authority. He named a provisional cabinet. Other palace rooms were filled with officials and their wives. The populace waited along the avenues for his parade by motor. Dr. Washington Luis, a prisoner mean while in Copacabana Fortress, stubbornly refused to resign as President of Brazil. Only a fortnight remained of his legal term of office, he was given books from the garrison library, meals from a neighboring restaurant. Only newspapers were refused...