Word: ocelots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is plenty of room," says Sabbá, and more men are moving into it. Belém-born Isaac Benzecry is processing alligator hides, distilling rosewood (for oils used in cosmetics), curing furs (ocelot, jaguar, otter) and skins (water hog, wild boar, deer). Onetime Belém Fruit Peddler and Cabbie Manuel Pinto Silva now turns out building tiles, cement and lumber, is putting the finishing touches on the Amazon's first skyscraper in downtown Belém. Ukraine-born U.S. Citizen Maurice Kleinberg started Belém's first deep-sea fishing fleet...
Hide Whips. Jerry, now resplendent in a redlined black suit trimmed with ocelot, had an explanation for that too: "I guess you could call the mix-up a technical hitch." He was not really a bigamist, he added, because his second marriage, not his third, was illegal. It was this way: "I was 14 when I first got married. My wife was too old for me; she was 17. Then I met Jane. One day she said she was going to have my child. Her brothers were hunting me with hide whips. I was real worried. So I married...
Anthony Eden fidgeted a bit, crossing and uncrossing his Savile Row-clad legs. Georges Bidault sat with head back and eyes closed as if in sleep; he was as alert as an ocelot. John Foster Dulles looked up from a note pad scratched with doodles...