Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...told a Brazilian journalist "we could supply Soviet machines and specialists to Brazil." In his most formal black hat he welcomed Polish Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka at the rainswept Byelorussian station for an important party visit. But his flashing feat of the week was bringing off an international propaganda coup in the Arab Middle East...
...outside, to which loudspeakers carried the cadenced voice. It was Charles de Gaulle's first press conference in five months, and vastly different from the last one, when he appeared surrounded by guards, and the streets of Paris were heavily policed against the threat of parachutists attempting a coup...
...little more than 25 years, Thailand has had 13 coups or attempted coups, often accompanied by assassination. But what happened last week in Bangkok was not a coup d'état, nor even a coup de main, coup de Jarnac, coup de grâce, coup de maitre, coup de pied or a coup d'oeil. Searching for the trenchant Gallic phrase to describe Strongman Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat's apparent coup against himself, the best that observers could manage was coup de repos, i.e., a move that leaves the main features of a situation unchanged...
Emerson's statement was a reaction to an announcement by White that the "coup" was unsuccessful owing to a constitutional technicality...
...meeting next week," said William M. Bennett '61, Committee vice chairman until the "coup," I will back the proposal of some clause to restrict amending the purpose of the organization." "As far as I am concerned we will return to our original function," added Bennett...