Word: sacasa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the object of all this regard, his paunchy body supported in a hammock, was taking his ease at his hilltop finca, Santa Julia. "Tacho" Somoza was nursing a cold and spending as much time as possible with his daughter Lillian Sevilla Sacasa and her four children. Tacho laid his head back, presented his broad, tanned cheeks to his barber...
After the Marines left, Sandino came down from the mountains to make peace with Moncada's successor, President Juan Bautista Sacasa. Sacasa, worried about Tacho's growing power, decided to cultivate Sandino as a counterforce. On the night of Feb. 21, 1934, he asked him to dinner in the presidential palace overlooking Managua. Somoza spent the evening at a party in the Guardia's barracks...
...Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa, Nicaraguan Ambassador...
...muggy Managua the optimistic proprietor of the Libreria del Sol (Sun Bookstore) dressed his counters with copies of a timely book: How to Run a Revolution. Up on the hill, fat President Lacayo-Sacasa threw back his head and laughed until his sides hurt...
...some of the soldiers of the presidential guard now saluted as he passed. The people of Managua called him "La Muñeca Gordita" (the Fat Dolly). His belly shook and his great laugh echoed down the empty halls. No one was taking President Benjamin Lacayo-Sacasa* seriously, least of all Lacayo-Sacasa...