Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with flowers, trudged through rain and mud to place wreaths on his tomb. Finally they gathered in the great Ceremonial Hall, and as each one rose to congratulate the university, the forbidden name seemed to pop up, again and again and again. At the end of the ceremony, Rector Pedro Lain Entralgo of the University of Madrid launched into an impassioned eulogy of "one of the Spanish masters who will live forever, long after many generations have died...
...hard to find the immediate provocation for the brutal murder. The day before, O Momento had published a story by Reporter Gurgel aimed at Pedro Ludovico Teixeira, governor of the state of Goiaz and the newspaper's prime political enemy. It charged that Pedro Arantes, whom the governor had appointed head of the Electric Energy Commission, was running the state's drastic power rationing to suit himself. The paper printed its attack under the headline HE CAME AND PRODUCED LIGHT. Soon after the story appeared, Arantes met the reporter on the street, slapped him across the face...
Last week, while Sloan was vacationing in Spain at the ranch of wealthy Banker Pedro Gandarias, O'Dwyer said in Mexico City that as a Catholic he could not recognize the civil action. Sloan said that she had hoped a church annulment would come through simultaneously with a civil divorce; she indicated that she had no intention of putting herself in a state of mortal sin by remarrying without one. On the advice of church authorities, she is planning to return to Mexico to be interrogated by an ecclesiastical council...
There are still some big yachts. Last week several of them, led by the 161-ft. schooner Goodwill, were making port in Honolulu at the end of a 2,225-mile race from San Pedro, Calif.* Likewise, there are still some big, venerable and fairly standoffish yacht clubs, where the dues run to several hundred dollars a year, where it takes a crew of barmen to mix the drinks, and an orchestra plays, Meyer Davis-style, for the evening's dancing. But there are hundreds of other yacht clubs nowadays which offer the essentials-a place to moor...
...Portuguese royal family, fleeing Napoleon's army, moved to Brazil, their biggest and richest colony. After the French had been driven out, King Joāo returned to Portugal, leaving Crown Prince Pedro (Isabel's grandfather), as regent. Rising nationalism persuaded the prince to declare Brazil independent and himself its Emperor Dom Pedro...