Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marcel Peyrouton, anathema to the De Gaullists, patriotically offered to resign as Governor General of Algeria, General de Gaulle promptly accepted. Furious Giraudists charged that the Fighting French were usurping power, plotting a coup...
...Story. The military coup which sent Castillo back into obscurity had, in proud Argentina, all the earmarks of a revolt in a banana republic. Early one morning 7,000 troops moved out of the Campo de Mayo barracks to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. Led by General Arturo Rawson and General Pedro Ramirez, who had been Minister of War in Castillo's Cabinet, the troops fired a few shots at the city's outskirts, turned down the Calle Blandengues until they reached the Palermo race track. There newsboys were already hawking editions of Noticias Graficas, which headlined: "REVOLUTION...
...Penicillin is quickly eliminated in the urine. A physician must continually check its concentration in a wound or in the blood stream to make sure enough is present to prevent bacteria from multiplying (penicillin does not kill bacteria; the coup de grâce is delivered by the white blood cells...
Fritz Kreisler, 68, became a U.S. citizen. The Vienna-born violinist had described himself to Immigration authorities as a French citizen; after the Nazi coup in Austria he had gone to France, won honorary citizenship there...
...credit to Fred Kaplan, whose imagination carried him to a very brilliant coup ; but what happened to produce the illusion that seven hearts was "the highest makable contract" and that seven spades is automatically defeated...