Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lights blow out again. Europe's darkness this time spread to Africa, Asia, Australia, America; in the universal war, even neutrals had to accept the night. Among the world's blacked-out cities: London, Berlin, Rome, Paris, Bern, Budapest, Helsinki, Honolulu. Dimmed-out cities: Moscow, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Cape Town, Bombay...
Erudite Dr. Oscar Stevenson, professor of penal law at the University of Brazil, proposed last week at Rio de Janeiro that war guilt be pinned on: 1) government leaders; 2) military executives; 3) ministers; 4) sovereigns-not on the common people of aggressor nations. In a resolution referred to a committee of the Inter-American Bar Association for further study, he urged that war criminals be tried by civilian-military courts of their fellow countrymen...
Half the party will trek far to the north west to the upper reaches of the Rio Tapajóz. The other will work among the tributaries of the Rio Xingú. Later they plan a rendezvous on the water divide. The final round will take them down off the grassy plateau and forest country, then farther north through snake, armadillo and alligator-infested jungles to Santarem, 125 miles south of the equator on the steaming Amazon...
...world first became conscious of the Big Woods province 30 years ago when toothsome Teddy Roosevelt, Son Kermit and Brazil's great pioneer explorer, General Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon (now 78), floated down and mapped the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). The river was later named Rio Roosevelt. Flaviano Van-ique's sphere of action is a section neglected by Roosevelt and Rondon, east of T.R.'s treacherous River of Doubt...
...Catholic Social Welfare exhorted Italians to "wake up and live." In unbombed Dublin Eamon de Valera's Irish Press thought the bombs would "sadden many." London's official attitude was: "regretful, yes; apologetic, no." Unofficial London: "It's about time." Madrid and Lisbon were noncommittal, Rio de Janeiro generally approved; Buenos Aires frowned...