Word: oust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek fled from the mainland to Formosa in 1949, only four diplomatic missions followed him-the U.S., the Philippines. Korea and France. Since then, though there has been a constant clamor to oust Chiang and to seat Communist China in the U.N., only 18 non-Communist nations have recognized the Red regime in Peking. But 44 nations have diplomatic relations with Nationalist China, and where there were four embassies in Chiang's capital of Taipei in 1949, there are now 16. The last major nation to switch recognition from Chiang to the Reds was Egypt...
...foreigners led him to believe in an easy, speedy victory over Russia, Britain and the U.S., organized the superpatriotic Japan Youth Party in 1936, and with it as political leverage, instigated the sinking of the U.S.S. Panay (1937) with no effective discipline by higher army authority, went on to oust conservative rulers and join the clique that provoked war against the West. He once declared: "Britain, the United States and France are the setting sun. The universe will only come to life with the bright sun of great Japan flashing in the sky. Watch me, Hashimoto...
...pudgy, 62-year-old Beck the unanimous action was a heavy blow. His own Teamsters Union is reported taking steps to oust him as president, even though these moves are slow in taking shape...
Died. John Francis Curry. 83, Tammany Hall boss from 1929 to 1934 when fellow committee members had to oust him after a prestige-devastating series of defeats, e.g., backing Al Smith against Franklin D. Roosevelt for the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination; in Coral Gables...
When the Soviet tanks came blasting back into Budapest to oust Premier Nagy's legitimate government, Editors Obersovszky and Gali urged continued resistance, changed the name of their clandestine journal to We Live! It was during this time that Hospital Patient Kollar fell under their suspicion: the underground group feared that he would betray them. Said Ilona Toth: "I felt I had to kill him." When her needles failed, one of her companions stood on Kollar's neck and she dispatched him with a knife...