Word: sul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dynamite & Gas. Now that rabies is common among vampires, their bloodletting often brings agonizing death. In Trinidad 89 humans have died of bat rabies since 1935. Other countries also list human victims, but the principal damage is done to cattle. In the single Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, vampires killed 50,000 cattle...
...Kenneth Smith, who played General Kutuzov with sinewy dignity. High point of the opera came in one of the closing scenes, in which Andrey and Natasha were reunited as Andrey lay on his deathbed. Through his delirium he hears a pulsing beat, played in the orchestra by the strings sul ponticello (bow strokes near the bridge), and echoes it over and over again in a faint, falling cry. In one of Prokofiev's most dramatic musical inventions, the orchestra announces Andrey's approaching death-a scene that ranks among the greatest ever written for opera...
...next move was up to Premier Faure, who had promised a "solution" by Sept. 12. At week's end, he announced what he had in mind: once the old and new Sul tans had been replaced by a three-man regency council, a Moroccan government with control over most of Morocco's internal affairs would be set up in Rabat. This new regime would negotiate a new political link with France, revising the obsolete protectorate treaty...
...Eater of Cangulo. By an odd quirk of politics, the man who succeeded Vargas had spent most of his political life opposing him. Getulio Dornelles Vargas was the son of a cattle-rich general from Rio Grande do Sul. Joao Fernandes de Campos Cafe Filho was the son of a low-rung civil servant in the state of Rio Grande de Norte's finance department. In those days an imaginary social-economic boundary divided the state capital of Natal (turn-of-the-century pop. 16,000) into two distinct dietary sections. On the lower ground, near the sea, lived...
...Vargas' vengeful legacy had failed to kindle a political bonfire. In Rio, Vargas' son Luthero won a House of Deputies seat; but so did Tribuna da Imprensa Editor Carlos Lacerda, the late President's fiercest newspaper critic. In Vargas' home state of Rio Grande do Sul, at week's end, the hand-picked president of the Vargas-created Labor Party, Joao Goulart, was a poor third in his Senate race; the Labor Party candidate for governor was running second. And in the state of Pernambuco, Vargas' former Agriculture Minister, João Cleofas...