Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets they fought, establishing resistance points behind thick adobe walls. Sharpshooters who peppered the palace cut off Villarroel's escape. On Sunday, the revolutionists broke in. A few minutes later Villarroel, an Army major and Chaco war veteran, lay dead. His dictatorial regime, which began with a military coup in December 1943, had passed into Bolivia's troubled history...
Died. Juan Bautista Sacasa, M.D., 71, exiled ex-President of Nicaragua (1933-36), whose regime ended with the traditional Central American military coup; in Los Angeles...
...Mexico, in 1940, assassins had orders to lay a living ghost. He was Leon Davidovich Trotsky (real name Bronstein), organizer of the Bolshevik coup d'etat which overthrew Russia's democratic Provisional Government (1917), once Soviet Commissar of Foreign Affairs, Soviet Commissar of War, organizer and leader of the Red Army against the anti-Communist and Allied forces, and-after his expulsion from the Communist Party by Joseph Stalin-the world's No. 1 political D.P. From the safety of democratic countries (Norway, France, Mexico) which he longed to communize, this ubiquitous, political ghost had haunted Stalin...
...rest of the book, Stalin's career, from the Bolshevik coup d'etat of 1917 to his final ousting of Trotsky, suffers from a glut of documents, letters, telegrams, secret official papers and memoranda. Only Trotsky, a superb pamphleteer, who is practically incapable of writing badly, could have made his insistent exegesis readable...
Hatmakers of provincial Issoudun went about hatless. Their employers, wounded to the quick, locked them out. It finally took a deft coup de maitre to put everything right. The management agreed to buy each employe a new hat every year; workers promised to wear hats, at least when entering and leaving the factory...