Word: dezoito
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...lose, the most interesting candidate was a stern, greying airman of 49, Brigadier General Eduardo Gomes. He helped start three revolts, quell a fourth, was already a hero to Brazilians. As a fierce young idealist in an abortive revolt of 1922, he had been one of the Dezoito do Forte, 18 irreconcilables who had preferred death on Copacabana's bloody beach to surrender. Badly wounded, Gomes and two others survived. He fought again in the São Paulo rebellion of 1924. In 1930 he marched to power as one of Getulio Vargas' "young lieutenants...
Brazilian hearts beat faster last week at the news that Private Oscar Corrêa dos Santos had been awarded 17 years' back pay. For Oscar Corrêa dos Santos, as every patriotic Brazilian knows, is one of two remaining survivors of the heroic Dezoito do Forte (Eighteen of the Fort...
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