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Word: fructuoso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Sarmiento himself described Uruguay's General Jose Fructuoso Rivera; "[He] began [by] making war upon the government as an outlaw; afterwards he waged war upon the outlaws as a government officer; next upon the King [of Portugal] as a patriot; and later upon the patriots as a peasant; upon the Argentines as a Brazilian chieftain; and upon the Brazilians as an Argentine general; upon [Outlaw] Lavalleja as President; upon President Oribe as a proscribed chieftain; and finally upon [Oribe's] ally as a general of Uruguay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Latin Prose | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

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