Word: vivas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lose the labor vote for his candidate in next October's presidential election. Last week, therefore, he privately asked United Fruit to negotiate even before the strikers go back to work, and to start talking turkey on higher wages, paid vacations, double overtime pay. The company agreed. "Viva Gálvez!" cried the strikers...
...fellow townsman outside the town with a triumphal fanfare of trumpets and drew him through the streets in a ceremonial coach, bright with caparisoned horses and liveried postillions. As the Premier stood on a balcony to address his old neighbors, a blaze of electric lights spelled out the message: "Viva Scelba...
...Peter's great bell, Pope Pius XII, after 57 days of confinement with a stomach ailment, appeared at the window of his Vatican apartment, smiled and made gestures of blessing to some 50,000 faithful. The crowd cheered and, as the square echoed to cries of "Viva il Papa!", knelt to receive his benediction...
...terraced city of Tetuan, 10.000 Arabs and Berber tribesmen chanted Viva Espana! and begged Spain's help in throwing off 50 years of French authority in Morocco. In Madrid. Falangist hoodlums stoned the British embassy; in Seville, they screamed "Franco! Franco! We want Gibraltar." All last week, in an outburst of diplomatic orneriness, Spain set out to antagonize its neighbors...
...oldest witness of Western civilization. One of his predecessors faced Attila on his march to Rome; another preached the first Crusade against Islam; another excommunicated Martin Luther; another was taken prisoner by Napoleon.* It is an office that has often been near destruction, often corrupt, often hated. Nevertheless, Viva il Papa, Viva il Papa! shouted the crowds in Rome. They were cheering not only the office, not only a faith, not only the past in which they glory. They were cheering not only the Pontifex Maximus as they have almost always cheered him, but a man. For Eugenio Pacelli...