Word: tuos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cops are helpless, always patrol in groups and only during daylight. Except one. For the past 25 years, favela law, or what there was of it, largely rested on City Detective Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva...
...authority in the slums, Perpétuo had to be good, clever-and lucky. He never bothered to arrest small-timers, passed out candy to the kids, found jobs for dozens of ex-cons, personally sent food and clothing to mothers widowed by killers he had not caught up with in time. He could draw his .45 faster than any thug, could shoot so straight that crooks often surrendered when they heard he was after them. Bullets missed him so often that it seemed they would never learn the way. He once climbed unscathed up a hill through a hail...
Died. Perpétuo de Freitas da Silva, 51, better known as Bulletproof Perpétuo, Rio de Janeiro's greatest detective, who for 30 charmed years outdrew, outpunched and outtalked the most fearsome bandidos in Rio's slums; of a bullet wound inflicted by a jealous fellow officer who shot first, at point-blank range; in a dingy...
...Metropolitan Opera last week had already been honored in England as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In more colloquial Italy, she had been dubbed "La Stupenda." Roughly two hours after her appearance, the Commander sank to the stage singing the words: "Al giunger tuo soltanto fia bello il del per me!" (Though only when you join me can heaven be heaven to me)-and was rewarded with a special American accolade, a sustained roar that lasted for twelve minutes and through ten curtain calls. Never, confessed the Commander later, had she "heard such sound from...
...blockade) made some incisive contributions to the search for a temperate answer. "Sovereignty," he said, "does not mean the right to do exactly what you please within your own territory. The maxim, 'So use your own that you do not hurt that which belongs to another (Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas),' is one which is accepted by every legal system in the world." Furthermore, said Lloyd, "there is no real substance in the idea that a state suffers infringement of its sovereignty by allowing an international authority to perform certain functions in its territory." He cited...