Word: putsch
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...little arithmetic shows that Camacho strength can't help but total over two million votes. The total Mexican vote is under 2,500,000. If the election had been "properly democratic" and without a hint of any chicanery, Almazan would still have needed a miracle-or a Putsch...
Frau Engelbert Dollfuss, widow of the Austrian Chancellor murdered in Vienna during the Nazi Putsch of July 1934, prepared to leave her cottage at Llandrindod Wells in Wales, seek refuge in Canada with her children, Eva, 10, and Rudi...
...known as "the toughest hombre in Latin America." A pure-blooded Huichol Indian from Zacatecas, Amaro hates gringos but carries on affable intercourse with German agents who frequent his elegant villa at Calzada de la Exposición. Uncommitted politically, he is regarded by the Nazis as a Putsch possibility and convenient dark horse that could be ridden to power after pistoleros had done their work in the two opposing camps...
...troops in maneuvers, has the personal loyalty of most high Army officers. Ordinary Swedes like him because in his younger days he was an expert skier, golfer, swimmer, horseman, cross-country runner and marksman, as well as being a famed archeologist. Not to be lightly dismissed in any attempted Putsch is this able, strongwilled, elderly Crown Prince. His two wives were English: one, Princess Margaret, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria; the other, Lady Louise Mountbatten, a great-granddaughter...
...went to Munich, where the future head of Germany's Four-Year Plan enrolled in the University for a course in economics. He seldom attended lectures, took no examinations. He had heard Hitler speak. In December 1922 Hitler made him organizer of the Storm Troops. In the Munich Putsch of November 1923 Göring marched at the head of the Storm Troops, behind Ludendorff and Hitler. As the Brown Shirts advanced toward the Feldherrn-halle, rifle bullets peppered them. Fourteen were killed. Hitler fell flat, dislocated his shoulder. Göring also fell, wounded in the thigh...