Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpest of modern-day Yankee trader capitalists; of bronchial pneumonia; in Groton, Mass. At 14 he went to work for the giant Amoskeag cotton mills (for $4 a week); within a few years he was operating in the fishing business, shipbuilding, watchmaking, steamship lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode from Boston to New Haven...
Only the Beginning. The barracks-bred coup is so common in Latin America that latinos have a word for it: cuartelazo (from cuartel, barrack). Declared the manifesto of Bolivia's new junta: "This is not a cuartelazo.''' According to the junta, "the anarchic tendencies of certain groups" necessitated the army's "temporary presence in power." Authority will be restored "as soon as possible, to him who, by the constitution, has the right...
Four skippers combined Sunday to cop the Boston Dinghy Club Cup from an M.I.T. team which was considered practically invincible in its own Basin. The coup de grace was a canny port tack by Frank Scully at the start of the final race. The move won the race for Harvard and overcome M.I.T.'s three point lead...
...Millions. Smooth, fast-talking Lobbyist Bill Treadwell, who works for Britain's Tea Bureau, claims he has boosted U.S. tea consumption 17 million lbs. a year, largely by getting tea scenes into 83 movies in two years. His greatest coup: persuading Warner to change the name of its musical, No! No! Nanette! to Tea for Two. (In return, Treadwell used some of the Tea Bureau's $2,000,000-a-year promotion fund to squire a couple of starlets on a 14-city tour as "Miss Iced Tea for Two" and "Miss...
...since 1926; of uremia; in Lisbon. After 40 years in the army, he decided the Portuguese were incapable of governing themselves, had some evidence: 18 revolutions between 1910, when the last King gave up everything for an actress, and 192-6, when Carmona himself took over after a successful coup. He kept getting re-elected because Premier Salazar, Portugal's dictator, permitted no opposition...