Word: souza
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...Recife, white-suited, perspiring students milled about on the steaming cobblestones in front of the Pernambuco Daily. They were celebrating Brazil's "new freedom" (TIME, March 5). Suddenly, shots cracked out from nearby windows. Nine students fell wounded. The secretary of the Students' Union, Democrito de Souza, lay dead. Soldiers nabbed one gunman, who claimed he had been given his revolver by civil police, told to fire on the students...
...coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...
...Where in hell do you think you're going?" Captain Souza growled...
...said Souza, "you've made it." Thus the Anzio beachhead passed into history, after four months of toil, tribulation and terror. The beachhead front and the Cassino front at last were one, and this was high drama for home-front folks leaping at headlines. The Allied offensive in Italy formed the southern prong of the promised triple attack on Hitler's heartland. With things going so well in the south, D-day in the west and the pounce of the Russian giant could not be far behind...
Officially Franco still remained neutral. He sent his Foreign Minister, Count Francisco Gómez Jordana y Souza, and twelve military and diplomatic bigwigs for wining, dining and a joint accord on neutrality and anti-Communism with neighboring Portugal.* He welcomed home General Agustin Muñoz Grande, recently decorated (by Hitler) commander of the Falangist Blue Division fighting in Russia. From his train window at the border, the general shouted: "Long live the mothers who begat the most valiant soldiers in the world." At San Sebastián Falangist crowds cheered his prophecy of "certain Nazi victory over Russian...