Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...routine press conference last week Argentina's Acting President Ramón S. Castillo announced that he had summarily fired the entire Municipal Council of Buenos Aires and would replace it with a hand-picked set of appointees. Loud though the explosion was, it was not loud enough to blow the Acting President out of the Casa Rosada...
Next day almost all the Buenos Aires press was howling for Castillo's scalp, insisting that the Acting President was hellbent for dictatorship. Only two papers approved the firing: Razón, arch-conservative organ of Castillo's own party, and the Nazi-subsidized Pampero. Ramón Castillo sat tight. If he gets away with ousting the Council, he may decree that December's elections in Buenos Aires Province be held under provincial, instead of Federal, law, thereby insuring a fraudulent victory for his own Conservative Party...
After five weeks of siege, the defenders were still firm in their decision. Wherever the German wave seemed to lick too close, the Russians scooped it back a little. They used a new armored train as a battering ram for their attacks, and inside the city workers labored day and night toward the completion of two more such trains. One Russian lunge drove back the German right wing, restoring the line to its position in early September. The Reds sneaked across Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland in small boats to harass the German flanks. The Germans seemed...
Smite the hordes of Wotan, ram the gates of hell...
Mariquita is a daughter of the late great Spanish poet and novelist, Ramón del Valle-Inclán, who died five years ago at the age of 67, a stoical man who once smoked a cigaret while his right arm was amputated. Separated years ago from Mariquita's mother, Actress Josefina Blanco, he brought up two of their children -Mariquita and her brother Jaime - and instilled in them his own libertarian ideas...