Word: sarmento
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...streets of Lisbon. In the nine hours of fighting 80 people had lost their lives, 300 were wounded. Behind the flag-draped coffins of the loyal soldiers walked spry, spare General Carmona, his jaw clenched, his head up. Government officials announced that two leaders of the revolt, Major Sarmento de Beires (who flew to Brazil in 1927) and Col. Diaz Antunes will not face a firing squad but will be sent to disintegrate in swampy, fever-ridden Portuguese West Africa...
...Major Sarmento Beires of Portugal filled his seaplane full of fuel last fortnight and started "around the world in 90 days...
...Major Sarmento De Beires and two other Portuguese officers who flew from Lisbon to Macao (China), wrecking one plane, replacing it and landing the other in a cemetery whence they could not take off and where the machine was dismantled...