Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tempo swung its spotlight on red-shirted Garibaldini squads in the region of Lecce, on a "liberty brigade" in Bari, on a Verona clothes factory commissioned to make military-style berets. Then the paper brought off a small coup: it ran a letter from the grandson and namesake of the Italian liberator himself. Mourned grandson Giuseppe Garibaldi: ". . .There is no law in Italy to protect . . . the portrait and name of my grandfather . . . [from being] made to represent parties which are the very negation of Garibaldian traditions of liberty...
...romantic Balkan operetta which (thus far) had carried Rumania's 26-year-old King Michael and pretty Princess Anne Antoinette Franchise Charlotte of Bourbon-Parma through a lyrical, whirlwind courtship amidst the glitter of a British royal wedding and the dark second act of a Communist coup d'état in Bucharest...
...Rascal. Feng (rhymes with rung) was born a peasant, entered the Imperial Chinese Army in his teens, was promoted to regimental commander; in 1911, he took part in the coup against the Manchu dynasty. He became a Methodist. He also became the servant of a succession of warlords, to each of whom he proclaimed his loyalty with tears streaming down his cheeks; when a more powerful rival appeared, Feng transferred his tears and loyalties to him. In 1923, Warlord Tsao Kun captured China's government and made Feng a full marshal. Once, when Feng visited his boss...
...Vishinsky counterattacked with a 92-minute diatribe; the Soviet-controlled press rolled out its thunder of slander. The violence of their reaction attested to the effectiveness of Marshall's blow. Three months later, in the cream-and-gold salon of Lancaster House in London, the Secretary delivered the coup de gráce to the last false postwar hopes. Barely suppressing his anger through Molotov's interminable dialectics, he finally, impatiently, called for an adjournment. A campaign had ended...
What a lot of hay (as they say in Paris), what a lot of commotion! The city was in an uproar. Traffic was at a standstill near the Opera. Police were helpless. Was it another strike? Was it the Communist coup which panicky rumors had predicted for days? Nothing of the kind. The "Catherinettes" were on the march...