Word: grosso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brasil plane glided into a new airfield in the town of Governador Valladares, in inland Minas Gerais state. Aboard were the atabrine, antiseptics and insecticides that the U.S.-and Brazilian-sponsored SESP (Servigo Especial da Saude Publica) now flies to 32 backwoods outposts, from, the Amazon to the Mato Grosso. Crowds watched the plane come in. In other "lost towns" other crowds watched the landings of planes of Cruzeiro, Vasp, Aerovias do Brasil...
...little Army mail plane squealed to a stop on Rio's airport. Out stepped a half-naked Indian. He was Chief Inai Cachirere of Matto Grosso's Javaes Indians. In broken Portuguese he demanded an audience with General Candido Rondon, 80, begetter of Brazil's enlightened Indian policy. Said full-blooded Chief Cachirere to part-Indian General Rondon: "Old Father, I come to tell you that a white man bought 2,986 kilograms of quartz crystal from the Javaes Indians and did not pay for it. The man is Lauro Melo and he lives at Rua Machado...
Casually, like well-bred amateurs, the ten musicians adjusted lights and music racks, then began to play Handel's Concerto Grosso in G Major. There was nothing casual, nothing amateurish about their playing. They were, in fact, a hardworking group of Philadelphia professionals, called the American Society of the Ancient Instruments, and last week they were giving their 17th annual festival in the University of Pennsylvania's little cream-brick Museum auditorium...
...difficult problems that has long faced the Brazilian Government is how to deal justly with hostile Indians. Much of the richest land in the great interior State of Matto Grosso is inhabited by aboriginal isolationists. The Government wants the land settled; the aborigines do not. The Brazilian Army could easily wipe them out, but the Government's policy of race equality precludes violent methods...
...overshadowed by his fifth cousin, Franklin. Like his father, he had been sickly and nearsighted as a boy, and had rough & tumbled to strengthen himself. Like his father, he hunted big game and captured big headlines on spectacular safaris; he shot tapirs and jaguars in Brazil's Matto Grosso, became the first American to bag a panda, hunted timarau in the Philippines, spotted blue sheep and golden monkeys in Asia. Like his father and Cousin Franklin, he had started up the Roosevelt golden ladder: Harvard, the New York State Legislature, Assistant Secretary of the Navy. But unlike his father...