Word: platee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Day of Spring. By the fourth day, much of the interior was under rebel control, and a powerful fleet under Rojas was in the River Plate threatening to bombard the capital unless Perón quit. As a warning of what might come, rebel warships stood off the beach-resort city of Mar del Plata, shelled port installations and a government oil refinery...
...power was enough for the loyalist generals still holding out in Buenos Aires. Peron and his top followers bugged out to foreign embassies, leaving in charge an interim junta made up of 14 not-so-Peronista generals. Next day members of the junta boarded a rebel cruiser in the Plate, agreed to surrender their authority to a government headed by General Lonardi. Before handing over the capital of Argentina to the rebels, the short-lived junta happily carried out a final operation: disarming the red-armband fascist bullyboys of Perón's Alianza Popular Nacionalista...
...phrase-WJSV, which means WILLINGLY JESUS SUFFERED FOR VICTORY!" Then the choir, donning red caps marked with W, J, S or V, shouted out the letters in cheering-section style, and Elder Michaux with five assistants baptized 156 excited white-robed penitents in a tank behind home plate...
...driver of the car, identified through his license plate as 40-year-old Warren Cavicchi of 55 Gold Star Road, pulled over to the curb, got out of his car, and approached Wee. After a brief argument the students turned to leave when suddenly Cavicchi struck him on the mouth, Wee said...
When the collection plate came around, lonely Verna Burke dropped in a note along with her contribution: Was there any kind of club or organization in the church for divorced people? There wasn't, so the Rev. Paul Davie of Portland's Piedmont Presbyterian Church went to work founding one, with 40-year-old divorcee Burke and four others from his congregation as a nucleus. After it was publicized through an interview with Mrs. Burke in the Portland Oregonian, some 200 calls swamped the church. People wanted to know if there were restrictions as to faith (no), place...