Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return to his throne and light the pyre. Three times in the last three years the young (22) King had been rumored on the way home from the villa in Lausanne, Switzerland to which he went two months after his brother's death. Three times something (a Siamese coup, an automobile accident or a mere change of plans) had interfered. Meanwhile, as the King spent his days going to school, organizing a swing band, tinkering with his cameras and driving his cars from Switzerland to Paris, royal duties piled up in Bangkok...
...once a world student organization with Britain being the last major non-Communist member. The United States NSA quit the IUS in 1948 when the organization failed to protest the curtailment of student rights following the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. Since that time all non-Communist members except Scotland and South Africa have withdrawn...
...group is General Nicholas Plastiras, 67, a hero of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922, in which he was known to the Greeks as "The Black Horseman" and to the Turks as "Black Pepper" (what's left of his raven hair is now white). Plastiras led an antiRoyalist coup in 1922; he intended to execute Prince Andrew, father of Britain's Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, but a British destroyer dashed up and rescued Andrew from Plastiras. Later, Plastiras was deposed and exiled...
Last night the Crimson combined a good attack and fairly steady defense to subdue Princeton for most of two periods, before the Nassau skaters staged their third period coup. After spotting Princeton a goal early in the first period, Harvard tied the game at 13:24 when Captain Myles Huntington made good a pass from Lew Preston...
...Western Berlin. German anti-Communists were sure that the Reds would try to take the opportunity to provoke violence, and if they could, to seize Western Berlin. Some Western observers thought that the Whitsuntide demonstration was only a smokescreen, that the Communists would actually try some sort of a coup before that...