Word: xavier
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...link. But in Minas Gerais' old capital of Ouro Preto (Black Gold), the wealth also brought Brazil's first real intellectual and artistic atmosphere, and its first effective stirrings of independence. It was there in 1789 that an army officer named Joaquim José da Silva Xavier (nicknamed Tiradentes, "the tooth puller," because of the amateur dentistry he practiced) joined a conspiracy against Portuguese colonial authority. The Portuguese hanged, quartered, then beheaded Tiradentes...
...pick Loyola to beat Duke tonight and shock Cincinnati tomorrow. Admittedly, the Bearcats do everything well, but they have been showing signs of mortality this year. Cincinnati's 37-game winning streak was wrecked last month by Wichita, and they have just managed to salvage recent games against Tulsa, Xavier, Drake, and Bradley...
Villanova 16 Xavier...
...Gaulle has been preoccupied with France's greatness since earliest childhood. He once confided to his aides: "As a child, I loved to play at war. My brothers and I divided up our toy soldiers. Xavier had Italy. Pierre had Germany. And I, gentlemen-I always had France." Even at the lowest ebb of the war, a Free French officer who was poring over a map of occupied Europe heard the general's high, familiar voice at his shoulder: "Wasting your time, mon vieux. You'd do better studying a map of the world." Another officer...
Oppressive Aftermath. In fact. Nagasakians point out with relish, few Westerners had ever heard of Hiroshima before 1945, whereas their city has been known to missionaries, traders and sailors since 1549, when Jesuit Missionary St. Francis Xavier landed near by for a two-year stay in Japan. For 2½ centuries, Nagasaki was Japan's only gateway to the Western world. Long before 1853, when U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed into Tokyo Bay and ended Japan's era of seclusion, European traders had introduced Nagasaki's citizens to Western literature, science and business methods...