Word: epitacio
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...Rico and Venezuela in the Latin American eliminations. Mostly poor kids, many of the Monterrey players worked as bootblacks to supplement the income of their fathers, who work in mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because, like his ex-pitcher father, called La Mala, Héctor's stuff is sneaky quick, Righthander Torres had kept Monterrey going most of the season with good control and a fine fast ball...
...Died. Epitacio Pessôa, 76, onetime President of Brazil (1919-22), justice of the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague (1924-30); in Rio de Janeiro...
Early in the morning of July 5, 1922, a few hours after Brazilians had finished celebrating U. S. Independence Day (declared a holiday that year by President Epitacio Pessôa), the people of Rio de Janeiro were awakened by the boom of cannon, the rattle of machine guns, the noise of troops tramping through the streets. News spread that Fort Copacabana had revolted, was shelling Rio's other forts and the Ministry of War. Artillery Lieutenant Siqueira Campos became the first hero of the Revolution of 1922 by dropping a shell squarely into a wing of the Ministry...
...five in whom life still remained after the loyalists had stormed the trenches, two died in a hospital. President Epitacio Pessôa went to visit these two before they died. He praised them for their bravery, but lamented the fact that their cause had been unworthy of such sacrifice. Upon hearing this insult to his cause, one of the men, who had been wounded in the head by a bayonet, tore the bandages from his head and bled to death before he could be subdued...
...oblong of land, almost three times as big as Belgium, on the eastern point of the bulge of Brazil. The late Joao Pessoa was more than its Governor. He was the defeated National Democrat (Liberal) candidate for Vice President of the United States of Brazil, brother of learned, esteemed Epitacio Da Silva Pessoa, onetime (1919-22) President of Brazil, now World Court judge. He was also distributor of all the political patronage in Parahyba...