Word: casas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aramburu joined three other army officers in the beginning of the plot that finally dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing 360. But Perón had fled minutes before to the neighboring Army Ministry...
...Scala, long Toscanini's artistic home, scene of some of his greatest triumphs, a rehearsal for a new opera (by French Composer Francis Poulenc) was hastily called off.. As the musicians went home quietly, one violinist said: "He has gone on golden wings." In Milan's Casa di Riposo, which was founded by Verdi and to which Toscanini contributed, aged singers and musicians started a fast. And at Toscanini's Milan home, a veteran servant placed the traditional "book of condolences" in the entrance; for days, people passed by to inscribe their names. Millions all over...
After graduating from Harvard ('30), he worked as a reporter and adman for the New York Times and Syracuse Post-Standard, did public relations (forthe Panama Canal), ran the Casa Grande (Ariz.) weekly Dispatch for two years before joining the Navy, then sold it at war's end. With his own $20,000, a borrowed $55,000, and an option to buy the News in his pocket, Tom Robinson persuaded such well-heeled Carolinians as former Army Secretary Gordon Gray and Robert M. and James G. Hanes, operators of one of the state's biggest textile mills...
...that was needed, he argued, was "a little imagination, a lot of good will, a lot of love, great reciprocal confidence based on facts, not promises." Two months ago he bought control of Casa blanca's Maroc-Presse, a lonely newspaper voice reviled by French extremists for espousing such views. In France's festering protectorate, where Arab hatred swells with despair, and French fear breeds demands for brutal repression, the middle is a dangerous place...
...plaza's Roman Catholic cathedral in honor of Argentine Liberator José de San Martin, whose tomb is in the church. But instead of dropping flowers, the plane loosed two dark objects that hurtled downward toward President Juan Perón's headquarters, the block-long Casa Rosada (Pink House) standing at the other end of the plaza...