Word: couped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lonely Force. Neither Prado nor any other political leader proposes to wipe out Latin America's armed services, long a necessary and sometimes a lonely force for stability. Even in democratic Brazil, President Juscelino Kubitschek rules today because the army four years ago staged a "preventive coup" to nip a plot against him. The Argentine military backs Frondizi against mob pressures. In Guatemala the military academy is dubbed the "school of Presidents" because it trained four of the last five chief executives...
...battalions and kidnaped Abboud's No. 2 man, the Minister of the Interior. But Abboud, after hearing out the brigadiers' complaints, fired his Interior Minister and promoted the two officers to seats on Sudan's Supreme Military Council. Two months later the mutineers organized another inept coup, and though a court-martial sentenced them to death, Abboud commuted their sentences to life imprisonment...
...discussion of Algeria's political future. But what gave the rebel announcement an unmistakably smart-aleck flavor was that all five of the proposed rebel representatives have been in French prisons for more than three years; four of them, including Ben Bella himself, landed there in a celebrated coup in October 1956, when a Moroccan plane carrying them from Rabat to Tunis was diverted by the French and flown on by its French crewmen to Algiers...
...first ranks of U.S. finance. Less than a year ago, J. P. Morgan & Co. was in tenth place among New York commercial banks and 28th in the U.S. It was hard pressed for enough money to lend its rapidly increasing number of customers. Then Alexander pulled off a coup that Wall Street dubbed "Jonah swallowing the whale." He worked out a merger with the much larger Guaranty Trust Co., became the head of the fifth largest U.S. bank.-Overnight his bank's capital funds jumped from $89 million to $512 million. Now Alexander is expanding his business...
Thank heaven the small cars are coming back again. In 1949 we finally got our first new car-a Plymouth club coupé. Now, ten years and three children later, we still have the same wonderful little car. We figure that if we hang on to the old '49er a while longer, it will be right back in style again. Hurray for the compact car with the nice price, power-nothing, and the good old stick shift...