Word: master
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balcony of Government House. Thousands of Perón-struck workers cheered: "Viva Perón! Viva labor! Viva Argentina!" Colonel Perón did not bother to reassume his old offices or even to rejoin the army. Seven days after his return, he was still Argentina's master...
...Majors. Matisse dominated the show with a roomful of 37 paintings ranging from My First Painting (1890) to a recent Girl in Oriental Costume. Through most of the German occupation the old master had been sick near Nice; he had painted lying in bed. In 1943 his wife and daughter were tortured by the Gestapo on suspicion (justifiable) of helping the underground, but were finally freed. Matisse's health is still delicate, but he has seldom painted with more youthful boldness and joie de vivre...
...Benes well knows, revolutions are never as simple as that. Synthesized or not, they pose the basic question: is the state to be the master or the servant of the people? And if the state is king, can the citizen be free? A lifelong democrat, Eduard Benes would probably answer such questions with another: what if, as in Britain and now in Czechoslovakia, free men choose to limit their freedom...
...arrest was ordered. In a second-rate hotel near the Plata estuary, where he was hiding with exactress Duarte and $50,000 in cash, the late master of 14,000,000 Argentines meekly surrendered. Twenty-four hours later, Perón was duly packed aboard a small naval vessel, shipped off to Martin Garcia concentration camp. There he joined the company of political prisoners whom he had locked...
...Like his Master, he was a carpenter. He was also a Seventh-Day Adventist, and a pacifist. Desmond T. Doss, of Lynchburg, Va., refused to bear arms in World War II. He explained simply: "It is right there in the Ten Commandments. Thou shalt not kill." But Doss did not object to serving as an Army Medical Corpsman. When he was sent overseas he asked for assignments in the front lines. He felt that God would not let him perish by the sword if he did not live by the sword, and he had a deep sense of duty...