Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chanis then appointed a board of four men, headed by the Minister of Government and Justice, and sent them to police headquarters to take command. While they were on the way the President telephoned Lieut. Colonel Bolivar Vallarino, Remón's second-in-command and ordered him to surrender his authority. Vallarino listened glumly, mumbled a request to speak with Remón, then hung up abruptly and set to work. As matters later turned out, that was the precise moment when Chanis' hopeful plan began to fly apart...
...four presidential envoys arrived at headquarters, where they were hospitably received-and conducted to cells in the Cárcel Modelo. Busloads of armed troopers promptly rolled out of the barracks and surrounded the palace...
...chief, holding all the cards, refused. Tired and shaken, Chanis capitulated, then went to bed. He had been in office almost four months (as successor to the late President Diaz Arosemena) and seemed a bit relieved at the prospect of returning to his medical practice. The victors rounded up the Supreme Court, and at 6 a.m. handsome, square-jawed Vice President Roberto F. ("Nino") Chiari, 44, was sworn in as Chanis' successor. Within an hour he received the traditional loyalty oath from his second cousin, Police Chief...
Even in the green-carpeted Commons chamber there was no air of anticipation. Although the diplomatic corps had been told that Parliament would get its first review of Canadian foreign policy since last summer's general election, only four foreign diplomats showed...
...Virginia's dream of an unbeaten season ended abruptly when four passes were intercepted. Their conqueror: Tulane...