Word: si
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week crowds of demonstrators marched in the streets of Buenos Aires, chanting "Argentina, si! Yanquis, no!" They paraded before the U.S. Embassy, threw rocks at the English Pharmacy, at Charley's American Bar. They also rocked the newly freed La Prensa and other anti-Axis papers...
Then she slipped quietly back to her attic to read some more about Joan. The Maid, Simone noted, had not been put to death by the English invaders, but by 15th-Century French quislings. Soon Si mone found herself in the same fix. A haughty Marquis, the town's political boss, kept a collaborationist eye on her. Her Uncle Planchard was furious with her too, because of the gasoline tanks. Simone was arrested and, like Joan, lost her nerve, signed a confession. But when courage returned, Simone repudiated her confession, gallantly went off to Burgundy's most ruthless...
...Si. Tengo secretaria. Yes, I have a girl secretary...
When the five men were asked: "Are you Partisans?" they did not seem to understand. Then one smiled, said, "Si, signor, Partisans." But he seemed vague about the word. They were peasants. They had killed to save a pig and because they hated the Germans. Tony said: "In America, they don't do sucha things. Now we help and sometimes we can kill Germans. Okay...