Word: pintas
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Lacerda and Pinta staked their political reputations on candidates running to succeed them. The candidates both men were backing lost. Negrao de Lima beat Lacerda's candidate Flexa Ribeiro in Guanabara. Israel Pinheiro crushed Magalhaes' gubernatorial candidate, Roberto Resende in Minas Gerais...
...abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo de Triana, the sailor on Columbus' Pinta who first saw the New World...
...family and friends conspire to cure him of his vision, and he ends up, like any good little boy, building collective villages out of blocks and playing "Unmask the Kulak." In a thinly disguised satire of Communist Poland, Novelist Stanislaw Len describes the mythical planet of Pinta. Its soil is so arid that the government embarks on a series of irrigation projects...
...Mendès-France some sort of nut, and he did not last long as Premier. Even more recently, the British National Milk Publicity Council, backed by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, achieved a dramatic upsurge in the national milk intake by a campaign that featured a catchy slogan (DRINKA PINTA MILKA DAY) and pictures of shapely milkmaids...
...last, Padre Gonzalez Salas rose from his bruised and bleeding knees to offer a Te Deum of thanksgiving for the passengers of the Pinta, not one of whom had suffered so much as a scratch in the rough landing. Then the padre turned to his companions. "I am very happy," he said...