Word: campos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Argentina's younger officers, the lieutenants, captains and majors, who had told potent General Avalos that the country was threatened with civil war and the Army with destruction as long as Perón dominated the Government. They demanded a showdown. Avalos agreed. Because Avalos controlled Campo de Mayo (one-third to one-half the Army's effectives), Perón had no choice but to resign as Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor...
...thrown back on its wheels. It recovered and under Major General Ernest ("Hardboiled") Harmon drove through Macknassy and opened the way into Bizerte. Later the ist fought at Cassino. It Janded at Anzio, aided the breakout, fought a savage engagement in the area of Cisterna and Campo Leone. First to cross the Tiber, it marched into Rome with the fresh man 88th, the 88th and the redhot ist Special Service Force. After that their style was cramped in the battering, constricted Italian campaign...
...Pisa, the famed Leaning Tower was lopsided as ever, but the medieval cloister and burial ground, Campo Santo (one star), had its roof destroyed, ruining the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli...
...Brazil and others) all criticism of her authoritarian regime. President Edelmiro Farrell called his Ministers to the Casa Rosada for a special Cabinet session. Ships of the Argentine state merchant fleet were ordered to scurry for the nearest safe ports. Perón himself rushed to the great Campo de Mayo barracks on Buenos Aires' outskirts, pleaded with the pro-Nazi officer group to agree to war, at least against Japan...
...from the Campo Mayo. One day last year Porteños (citizens of Buenos Aires) were alarmed by the regular thud of military boots on the Avenida General Paz, the rumble of moving caissons. From the Campo Mayo, Army headquarters, dashed truckloads of soldiers with machine guns. They converged on Casa Rosada, Argentina's Government House. In less than half a day the corrupt, unpopular, three-year administration of President Ramon S. Castillo was ended...