Word: brincos
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...Churchill Falls project is named for the late Sir Winston, who quickly gave it his blessing as a "great imperial concept." Smallwood also sold Britain's N. M. Roth schild & Sons on heading a consortium, British Newfoundland Corp., Ltd., to develop it. For the five-year construction job, Brinco expects to hire 5,000 men, fly in 600 million lbs. of equipment and supplies. For a starter, it has already bridged the river above the falls, and built an access road to a townsite and an airfield 10 miles away...
...Rodriguez was accused of operating a brinco (literally, a jump), one of a series of fashionable private houses where, in rotation, gambling is carried on almost every night. Brincos are the most elegant manifestations of a long-standing conflict between Mexicans' desire to bet on whatever they please and the government's efforts to funnel gambling money into taxable channels...
...Brinco...
With money or without money E-e-e-e-e, I get along.) Like nearly all Rio de Janeiro's carnival songs, Eu Brinco was conceived by one of the thousands of amateur song writers who drive Rio's taxis, run its elevators, sweep its streets and constitute a sizable portion of its population. Pedro Caetano happens to be a shoe-store clerk. Swarthy Pedro, with slant eyes and a cavernous mouth, cannot read music. He claims that he cannot even play the Brazilian song writer's traditional instrument: an empty matchbox with which the rhythms...
...written down, Pedro relies on a musician friend named Clau-dionor Cruz. But Pedro has what he describes as "cerebral rhythm." All year round, Pedro and his friends compose carnival songs. Most of them are duds. But this time Pedro Caetano was well on the road to fortune. Eu Brinco was a smash...