Word: revoltingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tanks and armored cars clattered along the highways; planes ripped through the skies. Buenos Aires' luxury shops hastily slammed their iron shutters as crowds of excited people rushed into the streets. For a few breathless hours last week it seemed that the long-simmering military revolt against Juan Perón had begun. But as revolutions go, it was one of the least successful ever staged. Strong Man Juan Perón crushed it swiftly, almost without bloodshed, and tightened his grip on Argentina's land and people...
...airbase. They flashed the word to Perón, who had planned to attend a flag ceremony that morning at Campo de Mayo, another big outlying army base. About 9, as a few air force and navy planes flew low over the presidential palace and dropped leaflets announcing the revolt, an officer driving up to Campo de Mayo saw soldiers scuffling inside gate No. 8. He spun his car round, raced back to the capital with the second alarm...
They did. Loyal warships bombarded the rebellious Punta del Indio naval air-base into quick surrender. At Campo de Mayo, General Benjamin Menéndez, 67, the retired army officer of right-wing, ultra-nationalist views who led the revolt, ran into opposition from loyal troops. Desperate, he finally lined up two squadrons of cavalry (all on white horses) and two tanks and three armored cars (he had counted on 30 Sherman tanks), and started for Buenos Aires. When the column stopped outside the Colegio Militar, loyal troops fired. The rebels leaped from their vehicles and ran. Loyal forces then...
Timely Roundup. The revolt fell so flat that some observers jumped to the conclusion that Perón himself had faked it all to whip up the vote for November's election. That was unlikely. More probably, the plot was genuine but had been allowed to develop with Perón's knowledge while countermeasures were prepared...
...Genteel Revolt." The book begins as biographies are supposed to, with Bolivar's background. His land-owning family was rich and fashionably enlightened. Simon, born in Caracas in 1783, grew up in a "genteel atmosphere of revolt" and got an education based on Rousseau. He spent much of his boyhood in the country, leading a life of camping and hunting. A visit to Europe helped to make him a patriot: a Spanish officer sneered at the colonies, and young Bolivar flared up in such a hot retort that he was "advised" to leave Madrid. Back home, he joined...