Word: nascimento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onlooker, teenaged, tuberculous João do Nascimento, was unappreciative. Like thousands of others, he had tried for two years to get into one of the Government sanatoriums (3,324 beds for 75,000 tuberculous Portuguese), growing steadily weaker while indifferent functionaries of the Estado Novo shuffled his papers. Rashly João complained to a friend: "There is always plenty of money to finance processions, but to take care of the sick such as myself there never seems to be a penny...