Word: silencio
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...color and excitement of a library reading room. There, sitting in mute isolation on the vast stage, two men huddled over a small table for hours like grad students cramming for their final exams. At the slightest stir in the sellout audience of 1,200, red signs flashed SILENCIO. The tension was almost palpable. Grand Masters Bobby Fischer of the United States and Tigran Petrosian of the Soviet...
Last week, during the crucial ninth game, the flashing SILENCIO signs could not still the sudden bursts of applause. Finally, after four hours and 27 minutes, Petrosian studied the shattered remains of his French Defense and resigned the game-and the match-to Fischer. While hundreds of fans jostled into the auditorium chanting "Bobbee! Bob-bee!," Fischer disappeared out the stage door and went bowling till 3:30 a.m. Headlined the Buenos Aires daily Cronica: A GENIUS, WITHOUT A DOUBT. At Moscow's Central Chess Club the reaction was summed up by one player who sighed: "Well...
Under Gallegos, the party maintained its headlong drive for reform. A.D. Congressmen railroaded measures through Congress. Whenever there was opposition, A.D. masses, usually led by left-wingers, would jam the Plaza El Silencio and scream hatred at their enemies. By the end of 1948, when rumors began circulating that A.D. was planning to replace the army with a "peasants' militia," Pérez Jiménez and his brother officers rebelled. They cut down A.D. in mid-reform, arrested Gallegos, hounded Betancourt into exile, and began a new and bloody military dictatorship...
...turned the army down cold. The Cabinet, minus Castro León, hurried down Mount Avila to confer under the protective shadow of navy ships commanded by Larrazábal's brother Carlos. In Caracas, a well-organized mob of 20,000 leftists marched into downtown Plaza Silencio with pistols, lead pipes and machetes to shout curses at the "dirty militarists" and, for good measure, "the Yankee imperialist dogs...
...hard-pressed police squads fired deadly volleys into swirling bands of rebels, carted hundreds of demonstrators off to jail. Under the yellow stucco arcades of old buildings, the air was blue-grey with tear gas. At one point five schoolboys popped onto the roof of a building overlooking El Silencio, hurled stones at a police bus below. Six cops piled out, sprayed the tops of all the buildings with rifle fire...