Word: couped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present strength, about 100,000), which has been trying to disarm them as a prelude to election. Oxford-educated Mohamad Houssein Qashqai, one of the four Qashqai brothers who rule most of the southern tribesmen, thinks the army exists only to suppress tribesmen, fears ambitious officers may attempt a coup d'état. He said recently: "Since the days of Reza Shah,* every private thinks he can become a dictator." But the tribesmen concluded an uneasy truce with the central Government, surrendered a few beloved rifles as a token of good will. Only the Kurds in the north still...
...hamstrung Caspar Dutra there are two ways out. He can let the Army stage a coup and abolish Congress. Or he can seize upon some incident to declare a "state of siege" under which the Communists can be squelched. Because he wants to govern legally, Dutra has refused the first alternative. Shrewd observers do not think the well-disciplined Communists will give him any excuse for the second...
...grislier fate awaited three Hungarians. Charged with plotting a rightist coup against the coalition government, they were sentenced to a hanging a la Hongroise. In this procedure, the condemned man stands on a stool before a high post topped by a hook. A thin rope is put about the victim's neck and pulled taut about the hook. Then the stool is kicked from under the victim. His neck is not broken by the drop. As a measure of mercy, the executioner sharply twists the victim's head while a couple of assistants pull his legs down...
...coup of the season on Manhattan's arty 57th Street was the first postwar show of new Picassos (TIME, Feb. 10). A small art dealer, Sam Kootz, had pulled it off. How had he done it? Crowed Kootz: he had softened up the hard-to-get master by showing him photographs of paintings by six young U.S. abstractionists in Kootz's stable...
...attempt of July 20," says Author Dulles, ". . . was not an isolated, spontaneous coup, but part of a planned, desperate last effort to destroy the Nazi tyranny. . . . There was an anti-Nazi underground working in Germany, despite the general impression to the contrary. It developed out of heterogeneous groups . . . and reached into the vitals of the army . . . government, [professions], church and labor...