Word: das
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early summer of 1925, Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack and another English explorer named Raleigh Rimell jumped off into the jungles of Brazil's Matto Grosso, to look for the ruins of a lost civilization. Somewhere beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths) the party vanished, never to be heard from again...
Karl Marx's "Das Kapital" ("Not only is it dull but it is troublesome, and practically nobody ever reads...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Das Rheingold, with Hotter, Svanholm, Pechner...
Deep in the Mato Grosso jungles, beyond the Rio das Mortes (River of Deaths), live 15,000 Chavante Indians, members of the fiercest Indian tribe in all Brazil. For decades Brazil's Indian Protective Service agents have sought to tame and civilize the warlike Chavantes under their uniquely Brazilian motto of "pacification through love." Though the agents never used arms, even in self-defense, the ferocious Chavantes rebuffed them. One agent who dared to cross the River of Deaths was left dead under a pile of 1,000 war clubs...
...hrungstuch (merit scarf); after that, he is eligible for the red scarf and white blouse that signify full-fledged membership. All of the pioneers get chances to march with banners and standards in Red mass rallies. After such parades, they can be heard telling each other "Das war Spass, nicht? [That was fun, wasn...