Word: nio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scene was a little overdramatic, but then, dictators must take no chances. The man whisked out of Portugal to asylum in Brazil was Premier António de Oliveira Salazar's biggest problem-Humberto Delgado, a balding Portuguese general-turned-politician, who had spent the past three months in petulant, self-imposed exile in Brazil's Lisbon embassy. Running for the ceremonial office of President last year against a candidate backed by Salazar, in a land where the press is not free and Salazar's men count the votes, Delgado polled almost one-fourth of the votes...
...Lott runs a poor second in voter polls to Jánio Quadros, the shaggy reformer from São Paulo who recently accepted the nomination of the conservative National Democratic Union (TIME, March 9). If Lott stays out of the race, he will have the demanding job of keeping army tempers cool during the fiery heat of a Brazilian campaign. He frankly believes that "besides defense, the army has a great responsibility for national unity and social order...
Brooched Subject. In Piedade, Brazil, Pastor Francisco Antônio de Oliveira preached against feminine vanity and feminine adornments, was pelted with earrings and brooches...
...years politicians have thought that criticizing Brazil's government oil monopoly, Petrobrás. was a quick route to private life. But last week Sáo Paulo's often demagogic Governor Jánio Quadros-who wants the presidency in 1960-pointedly censured the ineffectual, foot-dragging state enterprise...
...nationalists howled lustily, but Jánio ignored them. The significance was that a shrewd and ambitious politician can now say out loud in Brazil that nationalism is better served by whatever means will get Brazil the petroleum the country thirsts...