Word: raz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first acts of the democratic government that came to power in Bolivia's "lamppost revolution" of 1946 was to declare an amnesty for members of Razón de Patria, the ultra-nationalist military lodge behind the assassinated Dictator Gualberto Villaroel. Since then, the government has had plenty of reason to regret its generosity. In three years, RADEPA officers and their civilian supporters in the fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) have pulled more than a dozen revolutionary attempts. Last week they tried another...
...wiliest moves was his beguilement of the working press. Argentina's newspapers (La Prensa, La Natión, La Razón), traditionally free, frank and influential, smarted under the strict censorship begun by the Castillo regime. Instead of lifting the restrictions, which might have been dangerous for the regime, Perón forced the publishers to raise their employes' wages...
There is an old Russian cry of confidence and determination-Yeshcho raz ("Once again," used in the sense of "Heave ho"). It was the cry this week for the waiting Red Army...
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...