Word: descamisados
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...long, Perónist crowds swarming in the streets of Buenos Aires had been in a swaggering, festive mood. General Alejandro Lanusse, the outgoing military president, prudently avoided difficulty by using a helicopter. It was just as well: violence began when one young Perónist descamisado (shirtless one) pounded on the limousine bearing two other members of Argentina's military junta to inaugural ceremonies at the presidential "Pink House" in the Plaza de Mayo. As a crowd gathered around the car, police opened fire; at least two were killed and 15 injured. Fearful that the street fighting might...
...typical descamisado ("shirtless one"), the Vice President-elect is a graduate of Argentina's Naval College and U.S. Navy submarine and destroyer schools (he speaks idiomatic English). He was a professional naval officer until 1944. when he was made Navy Minister. Two years later he got into politics. Now 63, he is a top Peronista Party official. Because the election made him Argentina's No. 2 man, high officials gathered at Government House in a festive mood to congratulate him. One minister termed the voting "brilliant...
...intersections and preserve Evita's embalmed remains within, perpetually on view. By last week, the site had been changed from downtown Buenos Aires to the grounds of the presidential residence in the Palermo section. Evita's monument has been consolidated with an old project for commemorating the descamisados. Under the latest plan, the body will be sealed beneath the monument, which is to be topped by a statue of a descamisado...
...clothes the President guffawed: "Not exactly a descamisada, eh?" Evita herself is not a bit abashed. She is quite likely to appear at a streetcleaners' rally dressed in a Paris frock and glittering with jewels. She is well aware that in the eyes of many a descamisado she is Cinderella in the flesh. With sound political instinct, she dresses the part...
...from a gourd in his Suite 400, had reined in his delegates. His orders flashed by day and by night. An Argentine delegate skidding down the fourth-floor corridor in his shorts to respond to a late-night summons nearly bowled over a startled female. "That's being descamisado with a vengeance," she said...