Word: coupes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only Bellow could have staged a literary coup by sneaking a brilliant work into a 100-page paperback. Instead, it looks as if Bellow should have followed the publishers' advice and left this one on his word processor...
Howard's decision this January to put Atwater on the board of the preeminent Black unviersity represented a Republican coup. From such a position, the former Bush campaign manager could have greatly expanded his ties to and planted seeds of mutual trust in the Black community...
...support of both arch-conservative Lester Maddox and black activist Julian Bond. After defeating Carter's man -- a Harvard-educated lawyer whom Nunn chided for being "too used to air-conditioned rooms in Eastern Ivy League schools" -- Nunn faced a conservative Republican in the general. The great coup, the stroke that many say put him over, was Nunn's enlistment of Alabama Governor George Wallace as a public supporter of his candidacy. Nunn's memory of that ploy is somewhat selective. "You have to keep the context in mind," says Nunn -- a "context" that also caused him to attack...
...investigation was code-named White Mare, a name inspired by the color of the drug and the fact that heroin is often known as horse on the street. Drug experts called the FBI's penetration of a tightly knit Asian drug operation a major coup...
...last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...