Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franco's Alternatives. On the face of their appeal to "leading" Spaniards, Washington and London seemed to be hoping (and they might secretly be dickering) for an army coup that would force Franco out, pave the way 1) for an orderly return of republican and monarchist exiles into a broadened caretaker government, and 2) for eventual free elections...
What did le grand Charlie think of all this? "Silent as the Sphinx," reported the weekly Le Clou, "De Gaulle amuses himself with the subtle game of enigmas." Rumor whirled among left-wingers of an impending rightist coup. "De Gaulle's intransigent friends," said Le Clou, "dream for their Idol a destiny either like a return from the island of Elba or one resulting from a big scuffle...
Scrap Iron. As the magnitude of Denver's coup became apparent-a million people visited the grave every year-certain Wyoming citizens threatened to kidnap Bill. Denver's alarmed citizenry took steps-15 tons of concrete and old railroad iron were laid over the grave...
...need to go on," said the older woman. "I see the rest of the argument. One of the curious things about the end of civilization (for of course the bomb was only the coup de grace) was that so many people knew what was wrong, but nobody could really do anything about it. Whatever words William Orton may use to charm the dense skepticism of his century, he is merely saying that liberalism divorced from religion becomes (in philosophy) a sterile materialism, in politics tyranny. He is explaining the genesis of a type that was common in pre-atomic civilization...
Seringueiros & Garimpeiros. Last week's palace coup hardly rippled the crowds of Cariocas on Rio's lovely, white-sand beaches. The echo was even fainter to the great mass of Brazilians (some 75% illiterate) who crowd the sea coast and are scattered through the vast Brazilian interior. Seringueiros (rubber workers) in the flowered Amazon jungle, garimpeiros (diamond hungers) far to the west in the State of Goiaz, and gaúchos on the broad ranges of Rio Grande do Sul probably would not hear the news for days and weeks...