Word: tapirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From cluttered counters at the curbs, salesmen chanted: "Chega aqui, chega aqui" (stop here, stop here). Grinning Mineiros bought spun candy, tapir skins, plastic belts, holy pictures, soccer balls, coconut-milk gum. By the thousands they surged across the little bridge over the Maranhão river, and milled up the three-quarter-mile hill in sluggish serpentine. The town bank advertised: "We change money for alms...
...Composite badger, tapir and jaguar...
...gaunt, nervous-smiling man with the tapir nose became a local hero. Politicos, businessmen, shipping bigwigs stopped him on the street to chat. He was invited to talk at San Francisco's snooty Commonwealth Club. Now that Russia's war and the U.S.'s war was one, Harry Bridges was doing more than most men on the Coast to help smash the Axis nations...
...hand at snaring such top-flight cinema talent for noncommercial rates is sharp-tongued, tapir-nosed Charles Vanda, 38, producer of Forecast. He also produces Lolly Parsons' Hollywood Premières and the Hollywood end of the U.S. Treasury's Millions for Defense. Acidulous on all matters, particularly Hollywood, Vanda is enormously popular with reporters, is privily referred to by actors as "The Toad." Mordantly witty, as typical of Manhattan as a knish, Vanda has a ready excuse for his devastating blintzkriegs. "It's all an act," he says. "Inside I'm just a sissy...
...making One Million B. C. Directors Hal Roach & Hal Roach Jr. have thrown science to the winds that howl through arid Fire Valley, Nev. where most of the thriller was filmed. They rely for red-blooded entertainment on such spectacles as a giant lizard devouring a man, a tapir-like monster ingesting a python, a battle royal between two dinosaurs...