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Junta

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junta
1. a group of military officers holding the power in a country, esp after a coup d'?tat
2. a legislative or executive council in some parts of Latin America
junta [′hu̇n·tə]
(meteorology)
A wind blowing through Andes Mountain passes, sometimes reaching hurricane force.
Junta 

any of various kinds of associations, unions, and commissions of state organs in Spanish-speaking countries. The word “junta” in particular denotes a military government that comes to power in a coup d’etat.
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NOBODY knew his history-- they of the Junta least of all.
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Three bold and experienced men - cool, confident, and dry when they began; white, quivering, and wet when they finished their trick at those terrible wheels - swung her over the great lift from Albuquerque to Glorietta and beyond Springer, up and up to the Raton Tunnel on the State line, whence they dropped rocking into La Junta, had sight of the Arkansaw, and tore down the long slope to Dodge City, where Cheyne took comfort once again from setting his watch an hour ahead.
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