Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inter-ocean canal across the Nicaraguan isthmus which was purchased by the U. S. during the Taft Administration (1913). Throughout the past decade successive U. S. Administrations, of whatever party, have kept a detachment of Marines in Nicaragua until last year, when their withdrawal was followed immediately by the coup d' état of General Chamorro. The Nicaraguan Administrations upheld by the U. S. have apparently been obnoxious to a majority of Nicaraguans, but in upholding one more such regime Secretary Kellogg is only following scrupulously a well established U. S. tradition. The incidental question of abstract "right" faded...
...action does not constitute a crime. Socrates himself could not have more cleverly retreated from a cloud of threatening evidence; even Gratian would have been forced to admire the constitutional genius who prepared the briefs for the case. No matter what the eventual outcome is (and with this latest coup an imminent outcome grows even less likely) one may well congratulate the chief of the Four-square Bible Temple on her wise and nimble lawyers. Had she exercised an equal amount of perspicacity in concealing her whereabouts last May she would in all probability be searching at the present time...
...here I made my coup, a typical bit of Forecast strategy. I just repeated, "Yes, that's so," and hung up the receiver. You can imagine just how thoroughly the wind was taken out of his sails. But I don't propose to rest on my last week's laurels, although I must modestly admit that there are enough to rest on. Most of the major Forecast errors of the past two years have been made in regard to Yale. There is something unpsychic, if that is what I mean, about the Elis. They always do what is least expected...
...thought it was at the Battle of Austerlitz that Napoleon executed the coup I had in mind," said Lewis, speaking about it later. "At any rate, here is the account of the battle which I read and remembered: The French army was drawn up in a line awaiting the Austrian advance. There were divisions of infantry in the centre and cavalry on each flank. Behind the first line of battle were strong reserves. Napoleon sat on his horse in the rear, surrounded by his marshals, who were awaiting final orders. At length the Austrians charged the French centre...
Last year Mr. Forecast was engaged by the CRIMSON in the capacity of official football prognosticator. His judgments were practically infallible throughout the season, but his greatest coup was not achieved until the last two games of the schedule when he offered to wager his shirt that the University would defeat Brown (Ed. note: Harvard 3, Brown 0), and that Yale would find it impossible to down the Crimson eleven (Ed. note: Harvard 0, Yale...