Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confusion that followed Turkey's 1960 military coup, Kocero kept extending his franchise westward, and the government began organizing huge hunting parties to track him down. "Why this display of government forces, army, gendarmery, police?" he once complained. "After all, I am but a simple murderer...
...Lacerda, the mercurial Guanabara state governor and a front-running candidate in any future presidential election. Returning from a trip abroad, Lacerda had two cordial meetings with Castello Branco, then turned around and stormed that "a revolution that hides from the people is no longer a revolution but a coup." His invective fell on deaf ears; many of Lacerda's own U.D.N. Party members in Congress rebelled and joined other Senators and Deputies in a majority approval of the bill...
Noisy Protest. London's Daily Express claimed that Operation Sandpaper had been masterminded by "a retired army officer, now a Midlands businessman," and said the team that had tied up Dagenham's betting windows numbered 170 men. The coup had taken three months to prepare, and the bankroll was ?6,000 ($16,800)-"?4,000 for betting, ?2,000 for expenses...
...merest formality, the coup de gráce, and then everyone could adjourn to the clubhouse for the popping of the corks. There stood "Champagne Tony" Lema at last week's Cleveland Open, 15 under par, with just a one-foot putt between him and $20,000-and everybody knows that golf pros do not miss one-foot putts. But there was a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Ever so casually, Tony stepped up to the ball. Ever so casually, he pushed it right around the hole...
...Hong Kong, Manila, Bangkok, Osaka, Tokyo and Singapore, piped 90,000 visitors aboard and transacted $1,125,000 worth of business right on deck. Australia's enterprising businessmen miss few opportunities to mold their exports to their customers' specific habits and needs: in a wily and woolly coup in Thailand, they recently landed a large order for plastic sneakers by producing them in a shade of orange that matched the robes worn by the country's innumerable Buddhist monks...