Word: cuarto
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Main Go. In Rio Cuarto, Argentina, after a 500-lb. bear had tossed him for three falls, Professional Boxer Francisco Escribano 1) demanded a rematch and threw "Bobo" three times, 2) found that the backers of the event had welshed on his $140 prize because "the bear always wins and never asks for money," 3) nobly dissuaded outraged circus spectators from burning down the tent, 4) attached the circus' box office for the amount of the prize, 5) stood a chance of becoming Bobo's owner as well as conqueror...
...stands and sold native products to visitors. Through the crowds circulated vendors of the real, authentic Basilica cigarets, proceeds from the sale of which were, to be given by El Aquila Cigaret Co. to the alteration fund of the Basilica. El Aquila had first christened the cigarets Cuarto Centenario, but an impious competitor had quickly produced a brand known as Centenario, necessitating change of name and an advertisement denouncing the upstarts as crass mercenaries...
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