Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dunn captured control of the state's 25 delegates, and Boss Dunn even hand-picked six of the seven delegates-at-large. The seventh place, which he left open, fell to U.S. Senator Joe Ball, a loyal Stassenite -who ran behind the Dunnsters. And as the coup de grace, R. C. Radabaugh, Stassen's No. 1 political handy man and state G.O.P. chairman, could get elected to the convention only as an alternate...
Weeks later General Dwight D. Eisenhower blueprinted the bold coup at Nettuno. But December's bad weather, the lack of ships, the High Command's reluctance to release the needed men and supplies delayed the plan...
...while everyone sleeps, he pushes overboard the man who catches him drinking from a concealed bottle of water. His apparently superhuman strength comes from this water and from energy tablets. In a burst of horror and rage his boatmates force him overboard, beat him under water. Rittenhouse delivers the coup de gráce-with the shoe from the amputated foot of the man the German saved...
...coup had jangled the alarms in every "Good Neighbor" capital. Only from Argentina, whose authoritarian Government is busily cultivating an anti-U.S. bloc, came published approval. Buenos Aires' pro-Government newspaper El Cabildo could not "disguise our joy" at the revolt, "which had not surprised us. . . . We had expected it." The great democratic papers of Argentina, La Prensa and La Nation did not rejoice. The U.S. State Department, caught with its striped pants down, reserved comment until it could belatedly discover what elements were behind the revolt...
...three of his Committee appointees. For reasons as yet unclear, former Gaullist Defense Commissioner General Paul Legentilhomme also vacated his post. Simultaneously seven Gaullists entered the Committee's ranks. At week's end, the reconstituted group, facing up in Algiers to their first major problem since the coup, tackled Lebanese demands for independence with drastic and provocative action...