Word: ora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next day, Peronistas were cockier than ever. At the army's vast Campo de Mayo base, the President and his blonde wife were ostentatiously received by their recent critic, Defense Secretary José Humberto Sosa Molina. In a speech dripping with consideration for Señora Perón, Sosa Molina said: "The significance of her presence among us as a special guest of honor is nothing but a stout denial of rumors that picture the army as opposing...
Unwanted Task. Just how long this new parade of personal triumphs would continue depended on whether Perón could lick Argentina's still unsolved economic crisis. His army critics seemed perfectly willing to leave that task to him for the present. Meanwhile, the high-flying Señora was reported setting her sights to bring down the boss of the army, whose criticisms had caused her so much recent embarrassment. When this news was conveyed to Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina, at his big army base outside the capital, the general's comment was blunt...
...President and la Señora had gone to their country place at nearby San Vicente, but the President got little rest. Official callers, high among them War Minister Sosa Molina, kept him so busy that he failed to make his scheduled address of welcome to the Inter-American Travel Congress, and sent no regrets for his absence. Without newspapers to give the reason for this strange behavior, rumor-fed Argentines began to talk ominously of political change...
...Asquia waved a paper at them. A reporter from Noticias Graficas grabbed it, examined it minutely. Sure enough, it carried the names of such party stalwarts as Mercante, Hector Campora, chief of the capital's Peronistas, and Miel Asquia himself. Every newspaper in Buenos Aires, including Señora Perón's Democracia, reported that Article 77, which forbids two successive terms for Presidents, would go unchanged...
...ora gets her share of praise, too. "Thanks to Señora Perón," he said recently, "more than 600,000 schoolchildren now have clothes, good food, books and games." As Secretary of Education, Ivan himself has shepherded 300,000 schoolchildren on "useful vacations" designed to get them better acquainted with their own country...