Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spreading so far beyond the continent's shores that it is being billed as "the new Japan." But no longer is it the United States of Brazil. Ten years after a military coup ousted the leftist government of President Joāo Goulart, it remains in the iron grip of a junta; in 1967 the generals renamed the country the Federated Republic of Brazil...
...experiences of Vivaldo Meneses, a welder and iron craftsman who came to Cambridge five years ago, illustrate the housing problems the Portuguese immigrants face in Cambridge. "We paid a lot of money in rent for a junk house when we first came here," Meneses recalls. "The landlord wanted to sell the house so he didn't want to do anything to it. I paid $110 a month and there was no good electricity or heat in the apartment. When I repaired the house myself, the landlord charged more rent. He said the taxes went up. Most of the Portuguese people...
...other half locked in iron...
...that if we managed to keep them away until the morning it would be very difficult for them to act. Five minutes seemed to us an hour as we heard our radio shouting for help and doctors until, at three thirty in the morning a tank broke in through iron and flesh. We went out, as many of us as were able to. Policemen and soldiers everywhere with machine guns in hand running after us, hitting, crippling unarmed children. Most of us found shelter in the surrounding buildings either as guests of the people living there or hiding under...
...only have Americans fomented economic repression in Greece, but they have imported repressive instruments of a more disturbing nature as well. Reports leaked from political prisoners claim that bicycles, patrol wagons, iron wreaths used to squeeze skulls, wire whips, and blankets at the camps are marked "made...