Word: steers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running in Vargas' name; pro-U.S. moderates backed Cafe Filho. But not even Vargas' rabble-rousing former Labor Minister, Joao ("Jango") Goulart, succeeded in winning his race for Senator, and as the votes piled up, the net effect was a green light for Cafe Filho to steer Brazil down the middle of the road. ¶ Guatemala's President Carlos Castillo Armas, who seized power in June's anti-Communist revolution, was legally confirmed in office. By having the voters asked out loud whether they wanted him to continue in office and requiring an oral answer...
Make no mistake, except for a few exceptions, these are real cowboys. Most are from Texas, and none are form New England. Each event snacks of realism, and it is very real in Event No. Four when a steer wrestler gets gored in the midriff. The Brahma bulls are pretty tough to ride, too, and they come charging down the sidelines roaring and throwing their horns about. Customers eight feet above the corral are warned to keep their fingers and toes inside, "No telling what one of these bulls will do. Keep your children back!" says the announcer...
...chief financial problem was how to answer his fan mail when he could only "afford two rupees [about 70?] for stamps every week." He noted, with a touch of malicious pleasure, that his modesty made him a thorn in the flesh of his superiors. "The officers steer clear of me, because I make them uncomfortable...
...close to settlement that Iran's top negotiator announced: "There is nothing important left which could produce a deadlock." And last week Premier Fazlollah Zahedi, Iran's soldier strongman, who arrested his nation's decline from Mossadegh to Moscow, indicated that he was prepared to steer his country away from its classic anxious neutrality...
...course, is not around at night, but Haddock believes that mariners may eventually be able to steer by the mysterious "radio stars" that shine only in radio frequencies (TIME, June 21). Their waves are much weaker than the sun's, so a bigger antenna will probably be necessary. If navigation equipment can, indeed, be devised to track the radio stars, a ship will never again need be lost in a stormy night...