Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From La Moneda's balcony, González Videla spoke to his countrymen massed in the Plaza Constitución below. Cried he: "Chile is obliged to denounce to its brothers of the Americas the threats of aggression by Great Britain, since this aggression is not only against Chile but against all American nations." Moreover, he said, there was one American brother who was not standing, four-square with the hemisphere. Gonzalez Videla meant the U.S., whose Secretary of State George Marshall had recently announced a "hands off" attitude toward both the antarctic and British Honduras...
...also made his bow to democracy by promising a free campaign to the badly split anti-Peronist as (Radicals, Socialists, Communists, Nationalists). When Radicals got out 70,000 people for a rally in Buenos Aires' Plaza Once, the brakes of a tramcar that had somehow been abandoned nearby were mysteriously released and the car rolled into the crowd. When anti-Peronistas tried to put up posters, they were told that the law forbade...
Tony Bowers, a high-class haberdasher across from Miami Beach's Roney Plaza, took out of his window the hand-painted necktie marked $1,500 and put it out of sight. "It's murder now," he said tersely. "I have some $25 and $35 ties, but I don't take them out unless a customer comes in and asks for one." All Miami felt the same way Tony did. By last week the city was aware that World War II-and the boom that followed-was over...
...Miamians doubted that the great spree was over. That did not mean that grass would grow in the streets in front of the Roney Plaza. As one horseplayer put it: "From now on it'll be lox and bagel* but without the cream cheese...
...Managua's sun-baked plaza, cadets from the military academy paraded one day last week in spotless white uniforms. Bands tooted the national anthem and the drums beat out a salute as President Victor Roman y Reyes and his boss and nephew, General Anastasio Somoza, drove down from their hilltop palaces in bulletproof sedans...