Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...history when she was conquered by Alexander the Great. After the death of the great Greek general, Georgia was ruled successively by four dynasties until 1801. The country was then annexed by Tsar Alexander I., and until 1917 formed an integral part of the Russian Empire. When the Bolshevik coup d'état took place in the same year, the Georgians, together with the Tartars and Armenians, became known under the title of the Transcaucasian Republic. Subsequently, however, Georgia was forced to form a separate State, and on May 26, 1918, her independence was proclaimed at Tiflis (her capital...
...worse than a drunkard: he wishes Oliver's estate, and has him kidnapped to be sold as a slave to the Moors. In rage and bitterness Sir Oliver forswears his religion and becomes a Barbary Corsair, in high favor with the pasha. Sir Oliver plans a desperate coup of vengeance. As Sakr-el-Bahr, the Sea-Hawk, he descends with his pirates upon the Cornish coast and steals Lionel and Rosamund on the eve of their wedding...
...most of the "administration" Republicans. In favor of the tax changes will be Representative Frear and the progressive bloc, probably allied with the Democrats, and, most important of all, Senator La Follette, who next to Senator Smoot is senior member of the Finance Committee, and might possibly (by a coup of the progressives) become its chairman...
Germans. A coup de sabotage was effected with great success when the Germans set in motion nine wild trains in the direction of Wesel. The eighth train ran into the seventh on the Lippe bridge and smashed 70 cars...
...disarms diplomats, statesmen, detectives and editors. As the wife of the late John Reed, " Playboy of the Revolution," she has had more adventures in five years than ten ordinary women have in a lifetime. She first met the Communist leaders sketched in her book in 1917 during the Bolshevik coup d'etat which her husband described in what is still the most graphic and authentic picture of the revolution, as "Ten Days That Shook the World." When Reed went to Moscow in 1920 in disguise (being under indictment as one of the founders of the American Communist Labor Party...