Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Texas, gawky young lambs bounded stiff-legged up green hillsides; farmers put out their tomatoes; the first corn and cotton shoots pierced the fertile land of the Rio Grande Valley. In bottom pastures cows were bloated from eating too much fresh clover. Blue-bonnets carpeted the fields; red birds flashed in the forests; wasps began a lazy buzzing at barn rafters, building their nests. In San Antonio the first kites jerked high in the gusty winds; tennis courts were crowded; Mexican chicos waded in the shallows of San Antonio River...
When the Argentine merchantman Rio Salado was warped to wharf in Buenos Aires recently, her crew had a tale to tell: on her voyage from New York, the ship had been stopped five separate times by Axis submarines. Once her neutral Argentine markings were proved genuine, she had been allowed to proceed unmolested...
There are no commercial networks in Brazil. But eleven independent stations in Rio and eleven in São Paulo are linked by telephone wires, and all 89 Brazilian stations can pick up and rebroadcast programs transmitted over Brazil's powerful short-wave stations. For years all stations have been required either to go off the air or to take the Government program, Hora do Brasil (sometimes known among jesting Brasileiros as the Hora do Silencio...
...Lois said there were no hard feelings, and all she wanted was a chance to prove her mettle as an entertainer, and this time, there was great doubt that any of the men in blue would interfere with her act at the Rio Casino...
...Rio mobs were allowed to loot German stores, manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...