Word: dona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
...little man, swinging the clapper again, looked anxiously toward the east tower-and thence, clear and sweet as the day she was cast 193 years ago, answered Dona María de la Asunción. A moment later Las Chiquitas, San Pablo, Dolores, Santa Delicates, Los Angeles, Carmen and La Trinidad joined their joyous tintinnabulation to the grave duet of Dona María and Santa María. The wrinkled face of the little old man in the west tower spread into a wide, happy grin...
...Hours of the Bells. The day, for José, begins at 5:30, when he climbs to the bell platform and sounds Dona María nine times. Then he has breakfast, slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass. At 8:30 he wanders into the Zócalo (the city's chief square) looking for assistants. If there are no idlers about, he calls on his friends the trolley-car motormen, who not infrequently abandon their cars in mid-street, at the height of the rush hour...
Together they set Dona María and the six Chiquitas ringing, sounding the deep-voiced Santa María once every five minutes for a half hour. When the last echoes have died away, Santa María solemnly booms the news that it is 9 o'clock. At 12 noon, 3:30 and 6:30 p.m.-approximately-José repeats the performance. No one ever tries to set his watch by José's bells...