Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last January they counterattacked. In a swift and skillful political coup, while Craig was keeping a speaking engagement in Topeka, Kans.. they ousted Noland Wright, pro-Craig chairman of the Republican state committee, and installed 32-year-old Paul Cyr, an O.S.S. veteran of World War II, handpicked by Jenner and Capehart...
...major Communist coup," admitted one Western intelligence operative. Berlin's police chief called it "the most serious kidnaping since the abduction of Dr. Walter Linse," a top official of the anti-Communist Free Jurists (TIME, July 21, 1952). The U.S. commandant in Berlin bluntly charged "clear evidence of complicity" by Soviet officials in this "outrageous abduction," and the British demanded an investigation. But few had any hope of seeing Dr. Trushnovich again, unless and until he appeared in a Communist court, vacant-eyed and slow of speech, in the inexorable pattern the Communists have made cruelly familiar...
While the anthropologists paused to congratulate themselves on their work, Dr. Humberto Fuenzalida decided that the body rightfully belonged in his Museum of Natural History. He took it from the freezer forthwith and carried it off to his collection of stuffed pumas and condors-a coup of science roughly comparable to a band of West Point cadets kidnaping the Navy goat on the eve of the service academies' annual football game. As soon as the students heard of the ab duction, they called in the press to claim credit for a find that "may change our knowledge...
...intellectual muckers and muckrakers, with the tocsin of false alarm gleefully tolled in state and national legislatures, each student must prepare himself to carry the weight of freedom. Harvard independence has been extolled by its alumni, exhorted by its deans, and recently received the accolade (if not the coup de grace) of recognition by Henry Luce...
Bell first began to suspect that Nasser was the man to watch shortly after the coup d'etat of July 23, 1952. Says Bell: "We started hearing the phrase El Bekbashi constantly around army headquarters. El Bekbashi wanted this done . . . has ordered . . . Bekbashi means lieutenant colonel in Arabic. El Bekbashi was obviously a big man, but we didn't know who he was. It was not until late summer that we learned that El Bekbashi was Nasser...