Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month before the election, Vargas suddenly installed his unpopular brother, Benjamin Vargas, as police chief. Dutra and Góes Monteiro decided that Vargas was preparing to cancel the elections. They staged a coup of their own which abruptly ended Vargas' 15-year rule. Chief Justice José Linhares became acting President until the election, which Dutra won by just over a million votes...
...Sanders, a theater which offers some of the most unreasonable handicaps ever placed on a college group (no proscenium, no sconery allowed, no backstage, no dressing rooms, no curtains, etc.), the VTW production made inspirational use of its handicaps. Aside from the excellent cast now working "ensemble," the real coup do theatre was made by the designer, John Holabird, who moved his audience out into the transept of Memorial Hall in order that the coronation scene at Rheims could be enacted beneath its Gothic beams and stained glass windows. The audience stood during the scene, and when brought back into...
...time on Easter Sunday to go through the motions of electing a President. To no one's surprise, they plumped for Felipe Molas López, the 49-year-old dentist who has run the government since Feb. 26, when he seized power in Paraguay's sixth coup in 13 months. There was no other candidate. In the preceding week, Molas López received a much more significant endorsement. Following the lead of several of Paraguay's neighbors, six countries, including the U.S., formally recognized his one-party government...
...Barkutzan," is clearly the best piece of writing in the lot, and perhaps the best story the Advocate has published all year. Fodor manages to contrast effectively the earthy playfulness of a carnival crowd in a little Czechoslovakian village with the ominous arrival of the news of the Gottwald coup...
When Figueres prepared to transform the army into a national police force, Cardona tried to slip one of his right-wing friends in as police chief. The President refused him. Disappointed, Cardona seized the capital's two main forts one afternoon last week and tried to stage a coup...