Word: etats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continuo-player in Adams's superb production of The Marriage of Figaro, was to team up with him again as the soloist in the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23. One glance at the back of the program made it abundantly clear that Adams has accomplished a small coup d'etat in gathering so many of the community's best musicians...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'etat are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons, but as tragic simpletons...
...determine the actual cost, after all, is to raise salaries and see if enlistments increase. The ratio of Negroes in the army would probably not rise fantastically, since mental and physical tests would no doubt exclude a disproportionate percentage of members of disadvantaged minority groups. As for coups d'etat, they are usually led by officers, not enlisted men, and there is no reason that reliance on voluntary enlistments would significantly alter the composition of the officer corps...
...family, which for 31 years has, in one way or another, ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as President a third Somoza, chubby ex-General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Jr., 41, the opposition tried its best to trigger a coup d'etat. The result was riot and death for Nicaraguans and a narrow escape for a handful of foreigners...
...been proving its incapacity to deal with our numerous national problems, was bloodlessly overthrown by military coop. This was long overdue, given the chronic economic chaos, the growing social conflict, and the increasingly disruptive administrative disorder which racked the Illia Administration. Nobody in Argentina complained against the coup d'etat. On the contrary: there occurred a widespread feeling of relief and hopeful optimism. The Revolution, carried out by the heads of the Armed Forces to lead the country at a moment of national crisis. Ongania's government has since received spontaneous support, or at least acceptance, from meet...