Word: couped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there has come a companion feature, paradoxical in its implications--the idea that the dismal period of the Twenties, roaring boom and tragic bust, will be repeated. Fritz Sternberg not only believes that the future will follow the same cycle, but that this time the depression will provide the coup de grace of the whole capitalist world. A socialist of the German stripe, non-Communist, but more in sympathy with their viewpoint and efforts than with those of the "reactionary capitalists," it is not difficult to pick out the haven he would seek in the storm. "The Coming Crisis" points...
...Coop de Tote." Hummon was not abashed. He got the legislators together for a pep talk, gave them a piece of oratory distinguished mainly by his unique pronunciation of coup d'état. Hummon made it "coop de tate." He went on the air to cry that radicals were plotting to "destroy the dominance of the white race in the South"-and to suggest that his followers mail in nickels and dimes to pay for the radio time he had used, a matter of $1,637.66. To demonstrate his innate kindliness he even got himself photographed giving a dollar...
...Gaullist coup might be one way out. But, like a Communist coup, that would mean civil war, and millions of leftist Frenchmen would refuse to fight...
...shoved the Good Neighbor Policy in the background, especially in relation to Argentina. In 1943 a military junta pulled off a coup d'etat in Buenos Aires. Falteringly, the U.S. first recognized one militarist regime, then denied recognition to the next...
...differs in one important respect from New York's new Health Insurance Plan (TIME, Nov. 4): unlike H.I.P.'s, its doctors do not practice group medicine. Would C.P.S. team up with H.I.P.? C.P.S. did not say. But its elated director, William M. Bowman, saw C.P.S.'s coup as the start of a nationwide system. Said he: "We expect to see this reciprocity arrangement roll like a barrel clear across the country...