Word: correia
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Last week the crickets seemed to have disappeared and a final procession ended with a Mass of thanksgiving to St. Sebastian. "I'm not one of your fanatical Catholics," said Town Radio Operator Waldir de Barros Correia. "But if it wasn't St. Sebastian, it was one hell of a coincidence." As many as ten other towns in the area reported infestations, however, and in two of them church services had to be halted for the first time in memory because the crickets' chirping drowned out the priests...
That was why, when Bouças was in the U.S. last January, Brazil's Finance Minister Correia e Castro cabled him so urgently. The Government wanted 50,000 trucks, wanted them fast, and had the dollars to pay for them. In bettered transport it saw a way of moving food from farm to market, and thus of hitting inflation and the black market. The Communists were making hay out of skyrocketing food prices, and the Government was worried...
...title of Carvalho Araujo. Twelve years ago this same ship was the bouncing little British fleet-sweeper, Jonquil. One shell from the London could scuttle it. Not until the British had established their safety zone did the Portuguese ships begin a fitful bombardment. Soon Minister of Marine Commandante Magalhaes Correia sent a transport and the 55-year-old iron-clad Vasco da Gama clanking down the Madeira coast to land a punitive force on the beach at Santa Cruz and attack Funchal from the rear...
...Carvalho Araujo the cabin opened. Out stepped Rt. Rev. Antonio Emmanuele Pereira Ribeiro, Bishop of Funchal, swaying unsteadily. A rope ladder was dropped. Hand over hand, up went His Reverence, his purple silk skirts flapping about his legs, to plead for the cessation of all hostilities, but Commandante Correia locked himself in his cabin...
...Gama banged away, first with its eight-inch, then with its six-inch, then with its four-inch gun. Under this lopsided bombardment troops were landed, rebel soldiers fell back on Funchal. No visiting Briton was even pinked. Two days later rebel General Souza Dias surrendered to loyal Commandante Correia...