Word: coupe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through Illinois by Bus. A man with a memory like Jim Farley's, easygoing Bill Boyle knows thousands of wardheelers by their first names. He saw to it that the boss shook the hands and slapped the backs of as many of them as possible. His biggest coup of the campaign: routing Truman by bus and car through five downstate Illinois counties that had not gone Democratic in 50 years. Truman carried them all, took the state...
Since the subject of made-to-order auto bodies belongs to the esoteric, I am horrified at the appellation and price [$30,000] of the "sybaritic specimens." A "Coup de Ville" is improper French for the wrong type of carrosserie. A Coupée de Ville is a body with an open-type front as the Coach-craft Coupé de Ville I designed...
...junta found itself involved in diplomatic wrist-slapping with Chile. The Chilean government asked the Council of the Organization of American States to consider Venezuela's refusal to let ex-President Romulo Betancourt leave Caracas' Colombian embassy, where he had been since the coup. Replied the junta: 1) Betancourt had just been given a safe-conduct, and Chile knew it; 2) Chile had been guilty of an "unfriendly act" in even mentioning the subject. To make it stronger, the junta called its ambassador home from Santiago...
...wife of G.M.'s board chairman. It has interior fittings of silver, a chauffeur's umbrella, a pearl-grey clipped sheepskin carpet, a short-wave telephone, a gold compact, and a lifetime fountain pen. Nearby was a gunmetal "hardtop" convertible designed for President Wilson and christened the Coup de Ville. Upholstered in pleated gunmetal leather, it has a telephone, pull-out desk and engraved vanity case. ("Not that I use powder," quipped Wilson...
Small Proof. When the guerrillas in the house heard no further resistance, they came up onto the roof. They kicked the two motionless bodies, which rolled off the roof and fell 20 feet to the garden below. There, others administered the coup...