Word: roberto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angola newspapers hailed the announcement with banner headlines, but, from the safety of the nearby Congo, Angolan Rebel Leader Holden Roberto snapped that the offer came too late, adding: "But it shows we are winning-this is Portugal's first reform in 500 years." His guerrillas, armed with muzzle-loading flintlocks and a few modern weapons captured in ambushes, confidently await next month's rains, when the roads will be impassable to Portuguese armor and the isolated army outposts can be surrounded and picked...
...state of Veracruz, grew up knowing that his place in life was that of a poor workman. "There is nothing better in this world than upright work," he says-to the constant irritation of his children. Lenore ("the first woman I ever had") bore him two boys, Manuel and Roberto, and two girls, Consuelo and Marta. Of the four, only Marta holds his affection. He considers the rest ungrateful, worthless drifters. "They don't like to have anyone order them around." he says. "First they want to be millionaires and then...
Lenore died shortly after Marta was born. Manuel, the oldest, was eight at the time. "I was asleep on a mat on the floor next to my brother Roberto. My little sisters, Consuelo and Marta, slept on the bed with my mamá and papá. As though in a dream, I heard my father calling. He called to us when he saw my mother slipping away from him. I was always a sound sleeper and my father had to shout. 'Get up, you bastards! Hijos de la chingada! Your mother is dying and you lying there. On your...
...Roberto would hold the same stone and would murmur, 'Mmmmm. What is this good for?' But he wouldn't know the answer...
...first National League run came on a triple by Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente and a sacrifice fly by Bill White of St. Louis, the second on Clemente's sacrifice fly (scoring San Francisco's Willie Mays), the third on a pinch home run by Chicago's George Altman. The American League tied the game in the ninth when howling winds turned the contest in San Francisco's Candlestick Park into a Little League affair-there were a record seven errors, a passed ball and a balk-and went ahead 4-3 in the tenth...