Word: rios
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...weeks, Rio de Janeiro had been gearing up for the event. The words diretas já (direct elections now) became inescapable, splashed across posters, walls, buttons, T shirts and bumper stickers. Climbers scaled one of the peaks that surround the city and mounted a 35-ft.-high cloth banner bearing the slogan. At Maracanã stadium, the huge electronic Scoreboard flashed the words repeatedly during soccer matches. The climax came last week, in Brazil's biggest public demonstration ever. An estimated 1 million people swarmed into the plaza that surrounds Rio's Candelária Church, raising clenched...
After UMass handed the Crimson a 7-6 last minute loss in the quarterfinals of last year's NCAA tournament, no one East or West of the Rio Grande handed this year's Harvard squad a legitimate chance...
...died when UMass abruptly ended the careers of Harvard's five most talented players on last year's team, certainly another blossomed Saturday on wet and dreary Soldiers Field when Maggie Hart--straight from New Mexico's Rio Grande--lead the Crimson to new heights...
Hollywood has lately been filching French comedies as source material (The Toy, The Man Who Loved Women, Blame It on Rio). You may as well see Les Compères before some mogul gets the bright idea to cast, say, Clint Eastwood and Jack Lemmon in a remake. Bet they call it Daddy Daddy...
...mess, gray hair pulled back into a ponytail, he recalled a cleaner season. His youth had preceded plumbing, he said, and in those days, in winter, the only way a boy could prove to his mother that he had truly bathed was to sprint home from the Rio Grande while the ice still cleaved to his locks-a star-spangled...