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Word: curies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...typical hour last week, radioed dispatches told the grim tale. Terra Rica: "Fires have destroyed the whole region." Santa Fé: "Incalculable material losses." Ipiranga: "The people are desperate." Curiúva: "35 dead, 60 treated in the medical center, 106 houses destroyed, 901 refugees." In Natingui, where 23 died, terrified town-folk described a "huge ball of flame about 100 meters around" that leaped suddenly out of the forest, landing on two homes at once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brazil: The Holocaust | 9/20/1963 | See Source »

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