Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside, in the Plaza Murillo, where last July a mob lynched Dictator Villarroel, the news rapidly drew a crowd that swelled to 80,000. They seized Oblitas as police questioned him, propelled him across the square to a lamppost. There, while President Gutierrez shouted from his balcony, "My life is unimportant," they shot, then hanged Oblitas...
...jail. There they broke in, seized Jorge Eguino and José Escobar, the Villarroel police chiefs held since July for trial. These were the men who had admitted directing the massacre of scores of oppositionist leaders at Oruro in November 1944. Both were dragged twelve blocks to the plaza's lampposts. Escobar was probably dead before he got there, but they hanged him anyway...
...killed with two shots and hanged. He drank a bottle of Coca-Cola just before he died." That night, while the bodies were still hanging, there was a sudden flash of lightning. All city lights went out for ten or 15 seconds. In the frightened crowd in the plaza a woman screamed: "The voice of God-it is God punishing...
Petrillo's A.F.L. musicians, turned down after asking 25% more pay, had walked off the bandstands of over 50 New York hotels (including the Waldorf-Astoria, St. Moritz, Savoy-Plaza). Cried Pegler: ''I hope the hotels and the musicians' union never come permanently to terms...
...three Mongol delegates showed no visible pain at the snub. Headed by Vice Prime Minister Youmzha Tsedenbal, they were encamped at Manhattan's swank Hotel Plaza, where they showed an avid liking for Western ways by wolfing filet mignons. Communication with them was practically impossible, since they were carefully shepherded away from reporters by their Soviet escort (and interpreter), one Captain V. Krivoshekov. Their only recorded comment: Paris was the most beautiful city they had ever seen, "but so old. In Ulan Bator [Outer Mongolia's capital], now, there is much building-something new popping...