Word: oust
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relieve their Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek from his command-despite the capture of Shanghai by his troops. Such a knifing in the back by civilians of a successful commander would be almost unprecedented. Contradictory despatches, gave the impression that the Committee, although definitely on record as desiring to oust General Chiang and take control of the army itself, did not actually take this hazardous step...
...Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three by Tolstoy, four by Turgeniev, one by Gogol-all Russians. 'Would you dare,' I asked, 'oust any of them in favor of Dickens...
...practice, sharpened his tongue and his wits. In 1911 it was a polished lawyer and not a politician, a satirist and not a reformer, who entered the U. S. Senate. He has been there ever since, despite combined efforts of Woodrow Wilson's friends and Republicans to oust...
...name. In order to save her town she engages Holofernes, the attacking general, in a drinking bout; persuades him to try one of her potent highballs. Soon he loses consciousness. Soon she cuts off his head, rushes to her native market place with the dripping trophy. Inspired, her townsfolk oust the enemy...
...another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one." But immediately there was a move to oust him from control. "My misfortunes do not come 'single files, but in battalions.' And so many of my old friends hate me for what I have done that life seems too hard to bear." On Nov. 29, aged 61, he died, some think of a broken heart...