Word: coups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ireland with Eire. Last week 16 of those accused of the robbery were caught, and about 700,000 rounds of the missing ammunition were found in various hideouts. Eire's Army and police were scared that the I. R. A., its fire power thus reinforced, would attempt a coup d'état either in Eire or in neighboring Northern Ireland, the six Protestant-dominated counties stanchly loyal to Great Britain...
From Russia's standpoint, the pact seemed at first a brilliant coup in the cynical game of power politics. It was expected that smart Joseph Stalin would lie low and let the Allies and the Germans fight it out to exhaustion, after which he would possibly pick up the pieces. But little by little, it began to appear that Comrade Stalin got something much more practical out of his deal...