Word: coups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chester Dale and others offered their collections to the new gallery, it fell to Walker to make selections from them and to authenticate debated pictures. Walker became director himself in 1956; during his term, he almost doubled the gallery's holdings, acquiring 899 new paintings. His single greatest coup was the U.S.'s first Leonardo da Vinci, the $5,000,000 Ginevra del Bend...
Immediately after his election, rumors filled Caracas of an impending army coup to restore the defeated Acción Democrática party to power. Instead, Caldera has asserted control over the army. He appointed new and loyal commanders to key units, and boldly passed over senior pro-Acción officers to pick his Defense Minister. When the army's top general, Pablo Antonio Flores, openly grumbled, Caldera abruptly removed him from active service and now plans to send him into what Latin Americans call "golden exile" as ambassador to a Central American country...
They were simply outside agitators, a miserable rabble that could only focus attention on the problem. It took a man of genius, a whole committee working diligently to make Jubilee sound a little worse every week, to carry off the coup. The Conspirators gave up, convinced that soon the Jubilee Committee would cancel even the Lovin Spoonfuls and the Swingle Singers would fill in. But spring could not wait for the slow workings of an organized committee. And try as the Jubilee Committee might, May 2 came on Harvard before anyone was ready...
...enough to excite the coolest gérant. Right off Mack Jones, the slugging voltigeur, hit a circuit. A few but sur balles later, he collected his fourth and fifth points produits with his second straight coup sur. But then John Bateman let a faux ballon pop out of his mitaine de receveur and the trouble began. An erreur here, a simple there and Dan McGinn, the ace lanceur de relève, was rushed to the rescue. But by then it was a whole new joute...
...kidnaping goes unnoticed, the victim is taken to an isolated spot, beaten or tortured, and then killed by a salvo of bullets fired by all the assembled cops. A coup de grace is finally administered above the ear, and often a piece of paper is left by the body bearing a skull and crossbones and the initials E.M.-the sign of Esquadrao da Morte. Sometimes there is also a note saying "I pushed marijuana" or "I was a car thief...