Word: rio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brazilian ultimatum to clear French lobster boats out of Brazilian waters, he dispatched a warship to put an end to such nonsense. Brazil responded by canceling sailors' shore leaves, ordering units of its own fleet to sea. There was an uneasy stir in foreign ministries in Paris and Rio de Janeiro; among Brazilians there was talk of breaking diplomatic relations, even of asking the U.S. to invoke the Monroe Doctrine. Headlined Rio's O Dia: WAR IS IMMINENT...
...Rio, the French embassy was smeared with ink and tar. and someone painted "Lobsters yes, De Gaulle no" on a downtown wall. Brazilian diplomats boycotted a dinner aboard the liner France when it docked at Rio, sales of French wines slumped, and Carnival revelers dressed as lobsters danced a new lobster samba. Inevitably, in newspaper cartoons o grande Carlos was depicted as a long-nosed lobster...
Some of the world's most spectacular slums smudge the green mountainsides above Rio's crescent beaches, mosaic sidewalks and balconied hotels. Cariocas call them favelas, and there are 251 such slums in Rio with a population of 900,000. All year long the favelas are the city's blight; cops venture through some of them in cautious pairs by day, clear out altogether at night. But one night a year-the second night of pre-Lenten Carnival-the poverty-ridden, hungry world of shacks brings Rio a matchless show of gaudy costumes, music, dancing and gaiety...
...turrets and landscaped gardens. At parties, she made her entrance down a marble staircase while small boys scattered flowers in her path. When she wanted to go sailing, Dom João built a sea-sized private lake, ordered a sailing ship from Portugal and had it hauled from Rio to Tijuco by horse and slave...
...longer-leasing firms usually do not aim at the general public. By far the biggest lease customers are corporations (which lease one-fourth of their total auto fleet). For them, leasing is almost always a saving. For one thing, they do not have to tie up capital. The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad concludes that by leasing instead of buying a fleet of 150 cars, it frees $450,000 a year for other investments. Corporations often want to be spared the bother of buying, maintaining and keeping insurance on a fleet of autos, and are able to write off their leased...