Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry out their orders. Some 600 men armed with rifles, bazookas and machine guns surrounded the Presidential Palace. A housewife on her way to market glanced at a cluster of soldiers manning a field gun, then turned to a bystander and asked quite matter-of-factly: "What, another coup...
Jiri Hajek first revealed himself to be a Communist during the 1948 coup, when the Iron Curtain clanked down on Czechoslovakia. As a professor of international relations, he later proved his devotion to Big Brother by writing a book called The Wilson Legend in the History of the Czechoslovak Republic, a sleazy effort to debunk Czechoslovakia's esteem for Woodrow Wilson. For this and similar services, Hajek last May was made Czech ambassador to London...
...week's end, Elle dropped all caution and prepared its coup de grace for this week's issue. Charged Helene Lazareff: "A cruel hoax. Mile. Drouet not only thought up all of Minou's poems but we have evidence that she also wrote them herself, in pseudo-childish handwriting...
...army toppled the President last week in a Brazilian-style revolution: bloodless, almost gentle, and, to foreigners, bewildering. It was a coup to forestall a coup, a "preventive revolution...
...fervent upholder of that tradition is Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, 61, leader of last week's revolt. In recent months War Minister Lott had emerged as the army's sturdiest opponent of the faction called golpistas-the military and civilian leaders who favor a golpe (coup) to keep middle-roading President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (TIME, Oct. 17 et ante) from taking office next January...