Word: tagus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...khaki-uniformed members of Her Majesty's Coldstream Guards. Two days later the British embassy made matters worse by barring the press from a party given aboard a British ocean liner in the harbor. Apparently, said 0 Século acidly, the Portuguese could "circulate freely on the Tagus, which is theirs, with the permission of the British...
...oarsmen lined the shores, cheering as the sculling Crimeds, unpracticed since they retired the Janiero Cup on the Tagus last year, clocked the astonishing time of 4:22.3 over the measured mile. As one veteran, himself once known as "the Jim Thorpe of rowing"--exclaimed, "These youngsters have shown out here today that skill and integrity still have a place in collegiate athletics...
Accepting the offer before a hushed audience, CRIMSON Commodore Bartle Bull insisted that his men, untested since their triumphs on the Tagus in Lisbon last year, would not permit the level of competition to lower their performance...
...first shock was a "rumbling noise"; the second "brought down roofs, walls, and facçades of churches, palaces and houses and shops in a dreadful, deafening roar of destruction." About an hour later, "the waters of the Tagus rocked and rose menacingly, and then poured in three great towering waves over its banks." King Joseé moved into an encampment under canvas outside the city. There were penitential processions and prayers. A few looters (including five Irishmen) were executed. The quake destroyed a great many of the city's 40-odd churches and 90 convents, as well...
...comeback after a 1943 plane crash in Portugal (and 25 leg operations) was recorded in a Hollywood film biography (With a Song in My Heart): John Curtis Burn, 41, Pan American pilot and officer of the Yankee Clipper that went down with Singer Froman (whom he held above icy Tagus River waters for nearly an hour before being rescued); after eight years of marriage, more than one of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...