Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nationals, he placed third), and he cut a middling campus swath as head of the Glee Club, a leader of the music fraternity Phi Mu Alpha, and a stellar player in an opera called Top of the Morning. His role: a bold, bad conspirator, constantly plotting a coup to seize the throne...
Their neat coup of June 9 had left the onetime Fascist Marshal out in the cold. But they had reckoned without the wrath of Winston Churchill. Only a fortnight earlier the British Prime Minister had patted the Badoglio Government on the back, given it his "every confidence" (TIME, June 5). Now the anti-Fascist Italians stood at a frustrated impasse. Such intervention, they said darkly, would be the last disillusionment for Italy's democrats, would kindle antagonism against the Anglo-American liberators...
...shrewd, Comintern-trained Minister of State Palmiro Togliatti. Three months ago Moscow had taken the United Nations lead in recognizing the Badoglio Government. Then Togliatti had taken the lead in busting the Italian anti-Fascist front; he led liberals and leftists into the royalist Badoglio Government. In the Bonomi coup, Togliatti had shrewdly trimmed sails with the wind, cruised with the majority against the Marshal. This week, after raising a feckless fuss, Britain (and the U.S.) had to approve the Bonomi Government anyhow. Now the Communists, Italian and Russian, leaned back and laughed while Italian resentment mounted against Britain...
...weight-lifting team from York, Pa. (pop. 70,000) wound up its 1944 season last week with five out of six sectional titles, eight out of 14 national titles, and four new national records. Overwhelming as it was, the coup surprised no Yorkers. It was just one more proof of York's claim that its men are the most muscular...
...less permanent military impotence. There probably would have been internal difficulties in Finland besides, as few governments in history have survived a lost war and Russia's conditions would have meant to most Finns that Finland had lost the war. Moreover the Germans would probably have made a coup and provoked civil...