Word: republica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Making the most of its brief freedom (controls will be clamped on again after the election), the opposition newspaper Republica addressed the dictator thus: "Senhor Salazar, the world will not tolerate the direction in which you are walking against the will of the nation. You govern by force and you call it right. You are the only free man in Portugal...
This week the anti-Perón front scheduled a mighty mass meeting for Buenos Aires' Plaza de la Republica. It would be Tamborini's first campaign test, very possibly a test of just how bravely democrats would stand up to dynamic Juan...
...three old people who lived in the old mansion at Republica del Salvador, No. 66, never admitted visitors, had no servants. Brother Angel Villar Lledias, stooped and 70, did the marketing. Sister Maria, somber and 58, cooked. Brother Miguel, 66, was blind. Sometimes the three trailed over to shabby El Principal for lunch, left...
Death for the Invader-At each end of a spacious hall in the Escuela Republica de Mexico stood a volcanic panel in which huge figures, with muscles gleaming like polished automobile fenders, strove and squirmed in apocalyptic combat. In the north panel, symbolizing the history of Mexico, a many-armed, many-legged, colossal bowman, representing the Aztec hero Cuauhtemoc, bestrode the prostrate body of a Spanish invader, while such heroes as Hidalgo, Morelos, Juarez, Zapata and Lazaro Cardenas looked appreciatively...
...Tonazzi, grim-faced by nature and not by virtue of the fact that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned up in Rio for the birthday party, purred that he was on a "special mission...