Word: cunha
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...policy in Korea, Brazilians have wondered uneasily just how far the Reds might have bored into their army. Last month, the Rio newspaper Correio da Manhá reported that the Reds had indeed worked their way into some key places. According to Correio, General Victor César da Cunha, a Communist sympathizer, is now subcommandant of Rio's infantry division, and Colonel Henrique Oeste, a former Communist deputy in Congress, commands the brigade stationed on the Bolivian frontier...
...Tristan da Cunha. 2. The Galapagos Islands. 3. The Falkland Islands. 4. The Straits of Magellan. 5. Tierra del Fuego...
...still far out at sea. This is not important in the North Atlantic, whose weather is reported by ships and airplanes almost from minute to minute. But between South Africa and South America, there are few ships, and only one small weather station, on the island of Tristan da Cunha. Since most storms in the area strike from the west, a wave recorder on the African coast might give a day or two of warning before a storm arrives. Dr. Deacon also believes that a competent oceanographer might make a good living by setting up a wave recorder...
...half a dozen Robinson Crusoes had been popped suddenly into Times Square. Six leathery, middle-aged men from the gale-swept, potato-patch little island of Tristan da Cunha (pop. 231) walked off a South African gunboat at Cape Town and into a fairyland of beauties and wonders never imagined. They were the first Tristanites to leave home in 15 years...
There were only six survivors. One hundred and sixty-five fishermen were lost. The whole coast mourned them, but the greatest sorrow was in the village of Matosinhos, nearly all of whose men were drowned. The Rola family lost four men, who between them left 21 children. Old Mother Cunha sat rocking back & forth: "Belmiro, Chico, my beloved ones, come back to me." In a corner, silent and white-faced, sat Chico's bride of five months...