Word: shirtless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deepfreeze. A few miles down the road, Bob Orr finished washing up at the sink and lowered his big, shirtless frame into a new upholstered chair in his living room. "We've worked hard and we're proud of it, but we figure we have earned everything we got," he said. Last year, he spent $3,000 remodeling his kitchen-an electric stove, automatic dishwashing machine, a big Deepfreeze, a whole set of fancy kitchen cabinets. He has "three or four" radios around the house, including a radio-phonograph for the kids; his four barns...
When he was elected President of Argentina in 1946, Juan Domingo Perón had two visible means of political support. One was the army, whose ruling clique he headed. The other was labor, especially what he dubbed the descamisados (literally: shirtless ones), whose favor he had won (by wage boosts, social benefits, etc.) in a shrewdly realistic move to offset any fickleness among his army pals. In the past month many Argentines had noted that the army, fed up with mounting inflation and the politicking of Perón's wife Eva, had ceased to be the prop...
They remain confident, however, that the Annex's Cherry Red will sweep the Crimson from the Charles and send Putnam back to the Square shirtless...
Many in the throng last week carried shirts nailed to poles, symbols of the descamisados or shirtless ones, as Perón affectionately calls the workers. Others waved placards depicting Perón and First Lady Eva. Peddlers hawked razor blades and other trinkets trademarked descami-sada. The peddlers knew it was good business...
Like an actor giving a cue, Perón appeared on the platform. He was wearing a coat. He had time only to say: "Shirtless companions" when the crowd shouted: "The coat, the coat!" Perón laughed, took it off and launched into a speech in his old rabble-rousing manner. He praised his regime, gently chided the workers for having stoned the building of oppositionist La Prensa on their way to the Plaza. Then, just before Government functionaries passed around cookies and candies as gifts from Evita, Perón declared the following day a holiday...