Word: proa
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...Brazil's 37 votes will be largely progressive. Moderates and conservatives predominate in the important delegations from Argentina, Venezuela, Peru and Mexico. The best-known liberation theologian, Peru's Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, will be on hand as adviser to Ecuador's "Red Bishop," Leonidas Proaño Villalba. But El Salvador's Archbishop Romero, a hero to the poor, was not elected by his conservative colleagues and will attend only as a member of a papal commission. The bishops of impoverished Guatemala appointed the head of the Helena Rubinstein branch...
...Ship crew shanghaied him and his bride, obtained the keys to the gun locker, pointed the bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against the ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor...
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