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Word: tramcar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also made his bow to democracy by promising a free campaign to the badly split anti-Peronist as (Radicals, Socialists, Communists, Nationalists). When Radicals got out 70,000 people for a rally in Buenos Aires' Plaza Once, the brakes of a tramcar that had somehow been abandoned nearby were mysteriously released and the car rolled into the crowd. When anti-Peronistas tried to put up posters, they were told that the law forbade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Winning Ways | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Croatian terrorist assassinated King Alexander. Almost as if by magic, men & women bearing flowers appeared at the spot where the King was shot. Soon the street was covered with flowers piled high. When the police tried to break up this tribute, the people of Marseille bought tramcar tickets, dropped their flowers out of the cars. When the police closed the flower stores, the people dropped paper flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Freedom Takes A Bastion | 4/7/1941 | See Source »

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