Word: mate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tanks clanked into position in Rio. Censors took over the press, cables, radio and TV. Those who protested too loudly were summarily arrested. On the evening of the first day, retired Field Marshal Henrique Teixeira Lott, who ran unsuccessfully for President last year with Goulart as his running mate, telephoned War Minister Denys and demanded that he obey the constitution. Denys refused...
Political Career. In 1930, Neighbor Vargas set out to march to Rio and seize control of Brazil. Ousted in 1945, he got to know and like his neighbor's son. Together they sat on Vargas' stoop, sipped the gaucho herb tea called mate through silver straws, talked politics. In 1950, when Vargas swept back to power (this time in a free election), Goulart went along to Rio with him. Goulart watched over the labor movement for Vargas, be came his Labor Minister. In the ministry he embarked on a short but highly successful campaign to buy popular support...
...among them Harvard's Paul Cherington, argue that the U.S. hardly needs a dozen major lines, that some sensible mergers would eliminate costly separate facilities and ground crews. The CAB's new Chairman Alan S. Boyd, 39, is merger-minded, and he is already hunting a strong mate for Northeast Airlines. His goal is to strengthen the airlines so that they will be able to make the next technological leap forward-to supersonic jets by the early 1970's-without massive federal subsidy. To accomplish that, Chairman Boyd believes that the CAB must abandon its policy...
...brilliant, imperfect episodes that follow, Bergman illustrates the Chesterfieldian proposition that he went on to prove later in Smiles of a Summer Night and A Lesson in Love: the position is indeed ridiculous, but the pleasure is anything but momentary if one is making one's mate look foolish...
...capital's cobbled, orange-tree-lined streets were mostly deserted except for a few trudging, overcoated citizens. But beneath the icy surface of Paraguay there was a thawing new ray of hope. Men whispered word of it across the marble tabletops of kerosene-heated coffeehouses, over steaming mate, the herb tea sipped from a gourd through a metal straw. The hope, still dim but voiced seriously for the first time, is that outside pressure-chiefly from the U.S.-will eventually force the dictator...