Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last April he had finally succeeded in establishing the principle that the commissars must not interfere in purely military decisions. The suggestion that Zhukov was trying to establish personal dominance of the Soviet army was likely to find ready acceptance with Communist Party bureaucrats, ever fearful of a military coup. Khrushchev, having used the threat of Zhukov's military power to destroy his civilian rivals, was now appealing to the civilian majority of the Central Committee to help him destroy Zhukov...
...sharp-breaking pitches like tired biddies beating carpets, Burdette licked the Yanks three times, to become the first pitcher to start and win three games in a single Series since the Cleveland Indians' Spitballer Stan Coveleskie spattered the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1920. Burdette's coup also made him the first pitcher in 52 years to score two shutouts in a single Series, first ever to shut out the Yankees in two Series games. It was all the more impressive because the Braves gave Burdette remarkably little help at bat. Although Centerfielder Hank Aaron hit three home runs...
Beck v. Beck. First was a gentle coup de grâce to be administered to outgoing President Dave Beck. Fat Dave, once the unchallenged Teamster baron who patted little Jimmy Hoffa on the head, was to be booted into retirement (with an annual $50,000 pension) because of his outsize financial shenanigans, because he had been accused of fleecing a Teamster's widow, and because he had stood in the way of ambitious Jimmy. Bellowed Beck, in an hour-long swan song: "To thine own self be true! I would like to see the man who can stand...
Marshal Sarit's bloodless coup so surprised Bangkok diplomats that most of them heard of it at breakfast the morning after. Shortly before midnight Marshal Sarit's brand-new U.S. tanks and weapons carriers had taken up positions controlling Bangkok's key traffic arteries. Efficient little Thai infantrymen, troops of Sarit's crack 1st Division, set up mortar and machine-gun emplacements, and over the radio came the first of a series of orders from Sarit and the new government...
...like everything that happens in the Middle East, every action compels counteraction, and the Syrian coup involves dangers as well as advantages for Russia. The faint-seeming response so far by the other Arab states and by the West is to the Syrian coup a recognition that a counter-show of force is not the best answer. Instead the need was to rally together all the discordant and touchy elements in the Middle East that can be united on the simple proposition of keeping any "imperialism." including Communism, out of their territory...