Word: gunboat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...more than 600 fights the Boston Tar Baby hammered out his living with his fists. Stanley Ketchel, Harry Wills, Gunboat Smith-Sam held his own with them all. Even after an unlucky punch cost him the sight of one eye and cataracts dimmed the other, Sam fought on. In Mexico City, in 1923, he had to say to his seconds, "Just point me straight at him," before he could shuffle across the ring toward his opponent and lash out wildly to win the heavyweight championship of Mexico...
...Paraguay's biggest military base, and lined up an artillery regiment, two cavalry regiments, the capital's police force and an infantry battalion for the revolution. Stroessner hastily secured the loyalty of two cavalry regiments, the presidential guard battalion, an infantry regiment and Paraguay's two-gunboat navy. Politicos of the dominant Colorado party, who have developed a phenomenal sensitivity for this sort of thing, carefully studied the lineups and threw in with Stroessner. Without a shot having been fired, Mendez conceded, at least for the moment. The crowds in the streets of Asuncion went happily back...
Juan Perón, who called himself Argentina's "No. 1 Worker,'' turned out on his downfall to have been merely the country's fastest worker. Evidence left behind after his hasty flight to asylum on a dinky Paraguayan gunboat reduced the 60-year-old dictator to a lonely eccentric and tawdry libertine who liked his girls young, his gadgets golden, and his plunder plentiful. Almost the first witness that the new regime's investigators turned up was a sun-ripened lass named Nelida ("Nelly") Rivas, 16, who apparently had been...
Despite rumors that Perón last March married one Isabel del Solar Guillen, 19, (in a civil ceremony in the city he renamed for Eva Perón), Nelly stayed his favorite right up to last week. Aboard the gunboat, he penciled a fatuous billetdoux: "My dear baby girl ... I miss you every day, as I do my little dogs . . . Many kisses and many desires. Until I see you soon, Juan D. Perón." Another time he signed "Papi," which translates roughly as Daddykins...
...panic tunnel was never used. When his bubble broke, Perón took the easy way out to a safe and mobile hideout under a foreign flag on the Paraguayan gunboat. He, spent all last week there, while Argentina prodded Paraguay to guarantee that it would not let Perón mount a counterrevolution from Paraguay, which is separated only by rivers from Argentine soil. This week, apparently satisfied, Argentina let its busted boss fly off to exile...