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Word: setembro (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1947-1947
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Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Miracle Man | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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