Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March against Frondizi, insisted on a complete military takeover. Tempers flared, and Rauch phoned the Presidential Palace to say: "I'm going to throw him out with bullets." Poggi barricaded himself in the War Secretariat building, posting machine gunners at the windows and emplacing bazooka teams in the flower beds outside. Rauch called up his tanks, and the two sides rumbled ominously. After 24 tense hours, an uneasy truce was made. Both generals resigned their posts; then the Argentine navy sided with Poggi's hard-line faction to swing the balance of power. There could be little question...
...Rothschilds, by Frederic Morton. A dynastic biography of the family that knew so well How to Succeed in Business that they rose from the ghetto to an eminence from which they could tell Queen Victoria to get off their flower beds...
...Russian name for the blue flower, podsnezhnik, is translated snowdrop...
...Rothschilds, by Frederick Morton. A dynastic biography of the family that knew so well How to Succeed in Business that they rose from the ghetto to an eminence from which they could tell Queen Victoria to get off their flower beds...
...blue flower of the snowdrop looked out First, little by little Its green small leg it put out, Then stretched with all its Small might and asked quietly: "I see that the weather is clear and warm; Tell me-it's true that Spring is here?" THIS old Russian poem, remembered in rough translation through the years since his childhood in Moscow, inspired Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin to create the background for this week's cover portrait of Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. And it was, in another sense, a search for the answer to the question "Is spring...