Word: evitas
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...gaudiest occasions of his career. Instead, the pampas dictator ordered all ceremonies severely curtailed, and did not even make a speech. Though economy was given as the reason for such unwonted austerity, few doubted that Peron's real reason was the failing health of his wife Evita...
...Vacant Chair. Wan, drawn, and wearing an ankle-length mink coat, Evita attended the main act of the brief inaugural. Riding in the presidential limousine to the Congress building, she sat at her husband's side in the vice president's traditional place-the place she would have occupied in her own right had army opposition not forced withdrawal of her nomination last year. Last week she sat there only because the place was vacant; Vice President Hortensio Quijano had died since November's elections...
...Congress building, Peron helped his faltering wife into the vice president's chair, then quickly, one hand on the Bible, swore to defend the constitution. Outside, thousands of members of the Peronista Women's Party chanted: "Viva Evita, the vice president!" But Evita slipped away to return to the presidential estate in suburban Olivos. Peron swore in his new cabinet, reviewed a parade of cavalry and foot soldiers (mechanized forces were left in barracks to save gasoline), waved briefly from his balcony to 100,000 cheering descamisados, and hurried to Olivos to be at his wife...
...take advantage of this historic moment, we shall impose Justicialism* on the world and the coming century will be Justicialist. And men & women will say that they owe their material and spiritual happiness not to Justicialism but to Perón and Evita. This will be our greatest glory...
...Last week, in her first full-dress speech since her November operation, Evita Perón accurately reflected this policy. To a crowd in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo, she said: "There are traitors who in the darkness of night want to poison the soul and body of Perón, which is the soul and body of the country. I pray to God not to let these fools lift their hands against Perón, because, beware, the day they do, I shall march with the women, with the workers and with the shirtless ones, and no brick...