Word: tres
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobody liked the edict. "With things in this country going so badly," growled the conservative newspaper Correio da Manhā, "a campaign to repress excesses in courtship should be put in the one-thousandth priority." Cried Lady Novelist (0 Quinze, As Tres Marias) Rachel de Queiroz: "God protect lovers!" Even the cops prowled Copacabana beach with noisy prudence; they made no arrests the first three nights...
...France last week, from the choice vineyards of Burgundy to the rich plains of Bordeaux, French wine experts studied the grapes and searched the sky. If the dry weather held, it would be another tres grande année (very great year) for wine. The Ministry of Agriculture reported that the yield might run as high as 1.5 billion gals, in France alone, plus another 450 million gals, from Algeria. But as they began harvesting the grapes, few growers were happy. The trouble: France already has more wine than it can drink or export...
Though only seminarians were so far affected, the 90-odd practicing prêtres-ouvriers in France could see the writing on the wall. A compelling reason for the change in policy was probably the need to conserve France's supply of young priests, which has been dwindling. According to Cardinal Liénart of Lille, the Seminary of Lille had an average of 53 students a year between 1930 and 1949 but has only 32 today; the Seminary of Carcassonne had 112 students in 1900 and has only 34 now; two other French seminaries recently shut down entirely...
Sharks are the guards and ocean waves the walls at Mexico's Islas Tres Marias prison camp, a trio of tiny, sun-baked islands about 70 miles off Mexico's west coast. The 1,072 inmates sweat out their lives in dazzling white salt pits, tend henequen fields and weave rope. They live in straw-roofed huts; there are no iron bars, but escape is next to impossible. In cells at Mexico City's Black Palace Prison, coldhearted murderers weep like little children at the prospect of banishment to the Three Marys...
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