Word: hora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...UNEF troops garrisoning the Egyptian base at Sharm el Sheikh. UNEF fired an answering rocket in recognition. "A historic day!" cried Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol as the tanker began pumping its cargo into newly finished tanks on the barren shore. Israeli crowds went wild with excitement, dancing the Hora, and the national radio interrupted its Sabbath music program to announce the great news...
...Press Office confirmed reports in the illustrated Italian weekly Oggi that Pope Pius XII had told of having a vision of Jesus Christ during his illness last December. The vision came, said Oggi, while the Pope was saying the prayer Anima Christi, just as he reached the words "In hora mortis mei, voca me" (In the hour of my death, call me). Added the article: "The Holy Father is certain that he saw Jesus and that he was not dreaming." Later Milan's Corriere della Sera, Italy's largest newspaper, reported that the Pope also had heard...
Victim's Accusation. Few of Lacerda's fellow editors cared or dared to go so far, but all of Rio was roundly shocked. Even the Tribuna's old rival, Ultima Hora, declared the shooting "a crime which under no circumstances can be justified." Major Vaz's fellow air-force officers warned that "If the police don't solve this, we will," and promptly began their own investigation of the shooting. A cabbie who had driven one of the assassins to and from the scene was arrested, but at week's end the assailants...
...fiery editorials run as long as 1,200 words ("I don't have time to be brief"), and he doggedly strikes at corruption or any attempt to muzzle the press. Recently he began attacking the government, which has formally decreed press freedom, for underhandedly backing a paper, Ultima Hora (TIME, Aug. 17). Lacerda exposed the paper's link with the government, campaigned against it in his paper and on radio and TV until Ultima Bora's editor was forced to resign. (Another result of the battle: circulation of Lacerda's paper jumped fourfold...
Sensing a national scandal, President Vargas abandoned his protégé, ordered Wainer's radio station closed down got ready to shut Ultima Hora too. Characteristically, Sammy devoted the station's last hours to heart-rending appeals to Vargas, interspersed with plugs for Ultima Hora. Then Sammy gave in, sold his stock at half-price (for $15,000), and resigned as editor and publisher...