Word: coups
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...realized that his ruthless, iron hand actually holds the present Spanish regime together. It is he who sees that all the elections and plebiscites come out right, that the sons of useful Jews are exempt from military service, that the Army does not sprout another successful coup...
...Coup d'Etat of 1861. Professor Langer, Harvard...
...been regular in the performance of his duty in attendance at lectures, if those lectures have shown with their usual degree of luster, he has exhausted the store of his accomplishments. The full blossomed lot of pleasure has not been his during this last stretch of Saturdays. His coup detat, the carefully laid scheme to fly to Michigan, having been uncovered by the Yellow Press, he can reckon little for the credit side of his ledger...
Last night he was to start on a trip that would have taken him to Ann Arbor and fame and . . . temporary financial case. During the Prime Minister's recent visit to this country the Vagabond completed the coup of his lifetime. Negotiations were brought to a successful conclusion which would have enabled the Vagabond to outshine even his distinguished rival, Mr. Richard Halliburton...
...skepticism of League statesmen was understandable. Doubtless they had reminded Dr. Streeruwitz of last month's bloody clashes between Austria's two irregular armies, the reactionary Heimwehr and the socialist Schutzbund, both bands of political zealots eager to seize the state by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug. 19 et seq.). Last week after observing a brief truce, Heimwehr and Schutzbund leaders were again roaring threats at each other...