Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Reza Shah Pahlavi, 66, deposed Shah of Iran; in Johannesburg, South Africa. The tyrannical, miserly, violently anti-foreign builder of modern Iran, he became its dictator by military coup in 1921, "resigned" in favor of his son after the Russian-British invasion...
...Army sulked. Its 26 colonels and generals, accustomed to power, feared that a civilian government would reduce their privileges. When they threatened a military coup Menéndez called them to the palace, cowed them with some tough talk...
...Germans signalized their coup in Finland by parading third-rate troops around Helsinki, actually sent one armored division and a few planes to the wavering front between fallen Viipuri and Helsinki. The Russians, having retaken a 150-mile enemy-held stretch of the Murmansk-Leningrad railroad between Lakes Ladoga and Onega, were now shipping seaborne supplies direct from Murmansk to Leningrad on this line. On the Karelian front the Red armies were patently able to do their will...
...Caruso who had the job of executing Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's son-in-law and Foreign Minister, whom Hitler had condemned to death. Calmly, Caruso sent a bullet into the back of Cianos head as the latter sat astraddle a chair; cooly he fired a coup de grâce when Ciano's squirming spoiled the accuracy of the first...
Press Wireless officials were astonished by their brilliant coup. When sandy, slender Albert McGeagh landed in France with seven men and a mobile transmitter, he had no idea of bridging the Atlantic. His power was only 400 watts-little stronger than many a radio ham's shortwave outfit. He hoped merely to be first to get in touch with London, for relay to New York. But after a few tentative calls, Prewi's SWIF (Somewhere in France) got astounding news on its receiver: its signals were clearly pounding into the Prewi receiving station at Baldwin, L.I. Soon SWIF...