Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress building, Peron helped his faltering wife into the vice president's chair, then quickly, one hand on the Bible, swore to defend the constitution. Outside, thousands of members of the Peronista Women's Party chanted: "Viva Evita, the vice president!" But Evita slipped away to return to the presidential estate in suburban Olivos. Peron swore in his new cabinet, reviewed a parade of cavalry and foot soldiers (mechanized forces were left in barracks to save gasoline), waved briefly from his balcony to 100,000 cheering descamisados, and hurried to Olivos to be at his wife...
Winners of the Fifth International Film Festival were announced in Cannes. Best actress, Lee Grant (the shoplifter in Detective Story). Best actor: Marlon (Viva Zapata) Brando...
Kazan directed both the mage and screen productions of "A Streetcar Named Desire." He was awarded an Oscar" in 1947 for his direction of Gentleman's Agreement." Other screen plays he has directed include "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "Viva Zapata...
Into the Streets. On the appointed day, gunfire and cries of "Viva la revolution!" pierced the early-morning quiet of La Paz (pop. 350,000). M.N.R. partisans invaded public buildings, set up barricades, passed out guns. Seizing La Paz's most powerful radio station, they fooled at least part of the populace by announcing a "total and bloodless victory." But only part of the army joined them; at the last minute, top commanders swung their forces behind the junta government of General Hugo Ballivián. Bringing reinforcements from outlying towns, the government counterattacked with planes, artillery and mortars...
...disapproval). Partisans took up the challenge, shouted bravos. When Castro came back to the podium to begin the second-act prelude, he had to wait a full two minutes, back to the audience, for the din to die down. Before the opera was over, his critics were shouting, "Viva Verdi!", "Viva Wagner!" and even "Coca-Cola!"-from one listener who seemed to have North and South America confused...