Word: pipiribi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speak, decided where she would sit. She had already proclaimed that she would furnish some of the convention props. Among them: a portrait of Argentina's Liberator José de San Martin, a crucifix, a vellum-bound copy of the Gospels, and most important, a chair of native pipiribi wood with President Perón's portrait, the Argentine shield, and the Peronista party emblem painted on its back...
...Rostrum. No one knew how the signals got switched, but Evita abruptly called off her speech to the opening session. When the pipiribi chair was placed on the rostrum, the Peronista party emblem had been hastily covered with a piece of ordinary leather. Obviously somebody had decided that a party emblem was not a proper ornament for a convention representing the entire Argentine people...
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