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Word: tacho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nicaragua's Nationalist Liberal Party convened in the steamy town of León one day last week and, as usual, picked portly, genial President Anastasio Somoza, for 22 years Nicaragua's unchallenged boss, to be their candidate in next year's election. Flattered and proud, "Tacho" Somoza went that night to mingle with the shirtsleeved crowd in the local Somoza-founded Workers' Club. It was just after 11 o'clock on Sept. 21-Somoza has always thought that 21 was his lucky number-when one of the celebrators pulled a snub-nosed Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Shots at the President | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Before he got off his fifth shot, Gunman Rigoberto López Pérez, 27, was riddled by a deadly fusillade from presidential bodyguards. But he had hit Tacho four times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Shots at the President | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

...sweltering Nicaragua, Tacho Somoza readied a modest house on his cattle and cotton ranch, which overlooks the Pacific, for Peron. "He will be my house guest," said Tacho. "I might even give him a chance to do some work with a pick and shovel." But there were hints that Tacho, too, hoped that discredited Juan Peron would soon move on again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Unemployed Traveler | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Relations with a minor" is a common, nonpolitical crime that could have subjected the exiled Peron to extradition to Argentina for trial. Moreover, Paraguay, his host, had become increasingly nervous over his presence so near to Argentina. So when old friend Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, the Nicaraguan dictator, invited him to drop in for a visit, Peron decided to move...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The Unemployed Traveler | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Panama by '59? | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

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