Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was "Break" Brookenridge working away at a coup de grace on Jack Palmore's door, when he hears, a low laugh. There's Jack right behind him, club in hand. I tell ya the second floor ain't safe for man nor beast...
...historian and revolutionist, For eign Minister of Russia's short-lived Pro visional Government of 1917; in Aix-les-Bains, France. Twice imprisoned, once exiled by the Imperial Government, he helped found the anti-Czarist Constitutional Democratic Party in the early 1900s, fled with Kerensky after the Bolshevist coup...
LONDON--Germany has decided to take former French Premier Edouard Daladier, former Premier Leon Blum and Gen. Maurice Gamelin, French Commander in Chief before the 1940 collapse to Germany "in order to forestall a planned British-American coup de main against them," the German official news agency said in a broadcast tonight...
...notch production men to run the manufacturing divisions. Then he started pushing Aviation Corp.'s Vultee and Stinson divisions, pushed so hard Vultee was soon the No. 1 U.S. training-plane maker and Stinson one of the best known private-plane makers. Then came Emanuel's big coup: with $11,000,000 cash (two-thirds of it begged & borrowed) his pet Vultee bought into Consolidated. To make sure nothing went wrong, Emanuel tagged tough, dynamic Republic Steel Board Chairman Tom Girdler to run both Vultee and Consolidated...
...Palace Coup. Behind Charley Wilson stood a Palace Guard. A small but potent group of original New Dealers, they looked with alarm on any upsurge of military influence. They called Ferd Eberstadt a front for the services, set out to get his scalp. In other days they would have called Wilson a front for big business, but now they rallied round...