Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embassies, he declared, and every Czech ambassador must be "screened" by Moscow. Russia's Andrei Gromyko, soon to return to Moscow, denounced the charges as "sheer libel." When it was moved that the Council set up a subcommittee to investigate Russian pressures at the time of the Czech coup itself, Gromyko countered by threatening a double veto...
This was followed by the Crimson's greatest coup earlier this week, when it defeated a strong field including Yale and M.I.T. for the Dinghy Club Challenge...
...city masses had roused to his slogan, "Panama for the Panamanians," and given him the votes to lick Government Candidate Domingo Diaz Arosemena. But this time Arias' slogan had lost its old stridently anti-Yanqui ring. Having been bounced from power in a 1941 coup and exiled through World War II, Arnulfo now talked as though he was ready to strike a deal granting the U.S. air bases in Panama...
...high-collar areas of Boston, Frederic C. Dumaine flaunted an open-shirt background, cussed a blue streak, and walked with a bearlike roll. But by many a shrewd and ruthless financial coup, he climbed to the top of Boston's moneyed oligarchy, bossed the Amoskeag textile mills, once the world's biggest. Last week, at 82, shaggy-browed, alert Frederic Dumaine was in the midst of the biggest coup of his career...
...Burma (1940-41); by execution (hanging); in Insein, Burma. A leader of the independence movement, he was interned by the British in 1942 for collaboration with the Japanese. Freed in 1946, he lost out to Premier Aung San in the postwar political roughhouse, retaliated last July with an attempted coup and Aung San's assassination...