Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crest of the controversy, Surrealist Dali bounced into Madrid with a prepared lecture on "Picasso and I." Crowds greeted him with shouts of "Viva Picasso!" Spoke Dali: "There is no difference between Picasso and myself as men. We are both painters, both Spaniards, both geniuses...
...daily auto rides, noted that he always slowed down at the school corner on the edge of town just before turning into the highway. They rented an old house across from the school. They paid a pumpkinseed vendor to stand beside a tree at the turn and shout "Viva Villa!"-once if the general rode in the front seat, twice if he rode in back...
...Murderer." On the morning of July 20, 1923, Villa was at the wheel of the Overland, joking with his pals and puffing on a corn-shuck cigarette as he drove up to the school corner. The pumpkinseed vendor lurched toward the road, shouted: "Viva Villa!" As the general raised a hand to salute, a ragged volley of rifle bullets riddled his fat body. He and one aide died instantly...
...situation grew ugly. Trains stopped running in Buenos Aires, and on the walls appeared an ominous phrase: "Viva Perón Viudo! [Long Live the Widower Perón]." Finally, Perón announced he could not tolerate such worker insubordination. For the first time since 1943, the Argentine army was used in a labor dispute and the strike was broken. Whether this tough treatment produced any subsurface cracks in the Peróns' all-important labor support may not be known for months or years...
...pitiless. Do you have no pride? Do you not want to rebel against assassins?") Members of the audience, all of whom had been living for 18 months under a state of siege imposed by the Conservative government, loudly applauded every reference to liberty. One man even rose and shouted, "Viva la libertad...