Word: dos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like the devil's bomb shelter -a parabolic vault of glass and stucco, with an emaciated Christ glaring from a huge fresco by Painter Candido Portinari. Worse, Architect Niemeyer and Painter Portinari were godless Communists. Despite protests by Belo Horizonte's Mayor Juscelino Kubitschek, Archbishop Dom Antonio dos Santos Cabral called the structure "unfit for religious purposes...
...Spanish, he explained, even though he is a miserable linguist. At dinner's end, the President stood up, announced that he was about to display his best Kansan Spanish. Kansaned he: "Brindo por el Presidente y la Señora de Frondizi y las buenas relaciones entre nuestros dos paises." (I drink to President and Senora Frondizi and the good relations between our two countries.) Last week the President also: ¶ Signed, as part of his anti-inflation campaign, an executive order 1) creating an inter-agency Committee on Government Activities Affecting Prices and Costs and 2) naming...
Sixteenth century Portuguese explorers heard rumors of unusually primitive Indians in the state of Paraná. They saw none of them, and the steep, jungle-tangled Serra dos Dourados mountains in the western part of the state deflected both settlers, missionaries and slave hunters. Nothing more was reported about the primitives until 1906, when a Czech scientist named Albert Fritsch made a field trip into the region and met some comparatively advanced Indians dragging three captives who spoke an unknown tongue. He discovered that the captives called themselves Xetsá (pronounced shee-tahss). He studied their language superficially and then...
...both settlers and scientists knew that something very strange lived in the Serra dos Dourados. In 1955 an unusual frost hit northern Parana, destroying jungle fruit and game. Starving Indians crept out of the jungle to pillage the vegetable garden of the Fazenda Santa Rosa, a backwoods farmhouse. The frightened manager sent for help from the Indian Protection Service...
What apparently happened, says Professor Loureiro, was that the small, timid Xetás were driven into the rugged Serra dos Dourados by stronger tribes. Some time during the last four centuries they must have had terrifying brushes with European frontiersmen. Their demonology is dominated by an ogre named Möul who shows in figurines as a tall, long-legged, wide-eyed person, probably a white man grown into a tribal devil. Having seen enough of Möul and his violent ways, the Xetás retired into the tangled heart of the Serra dos Dourados and managed...