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Word: obras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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Usage:

...streets last week nearly all available space was filled with election posters. One bore the likeness of Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar and of President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona, a 79-year-old general and pompous figurehead. The legend on the poster was: "Dois homens uma só obra"-two men with one work. Opponents of the regime had crossed out the a in uma, which changed the meaning: two men, one goes to the bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PORTUGAL: The Only Free Man | 2/14/1949 | See Source »

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