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Word: pinheiro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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Usage:

...later told it, came forward to shake a friendly Hungarian hand. The two were still clasping hands when the Brazilian added a neat left to the chops. The Hungarian fell. The Brazilians insisted that it really began minutes before, when Hungarian Captain Ferenc Puskas hit Brazil's Joao Pinheiro in the face with a pop bottle. However it started, the fight swirled through the locker rooms, and players, spectators and officials got in licks with bottles, furniture, glass from shattered partitions and the toe-ends of good solid soccer boots. Swiss gendarmes surrounded the locker room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Brawl in Bern | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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