Word: oust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rules Committee (two Democrats, including one Southerner, and one Republican). Smith flatly rejected the offer, and Mister Sam thereupon decided to join the rebels. The next morning he summoned a group of top Democrats to his private office and broke the news: he would lead the fight to oust Colmer, whom he is said to regard as "an inferior...
With the wind colder and the water choppier, the Crimson skippers will not just sail away with the Jack Wood Trophy today or the Sherman Hoyt Trophy tomorrow. Carter Ford, Mike Lehman, John Kimball, and Don Cannon will first have to oust a very strong M.I.T. and Coast Guard fleets before hauling off the silver...
...General Dag Hammarskjold. emboldened by the Assembly's 70-0 vote endorsing his policies in the Congo, briefly but eloquently punctured Khrushchev's proposal to abolish the office of Secretary-General in favor of a veto-ridden three-man directorate. Implicitly accusing the Soviets of trying to oust him because he had opposed their attempts to subvert the Congo in defiance of U.N. resolutions, Hammarskjold took up their challenge. Said he: "I would rather see the office of Secretary-General break on strict adherence to the principles of independence, impartiality and objectivity than drift on the basis...
Whatever the measure of applause, Khrushchev's speech struck Western delegates-and even many Africans-as third-rate propaganda spiced with "absurd" proposals, not the least of which was the suggestion that the emerging African nations, which owed so much to the U.N., should oust Hammarskjold...
...contribution from an officer of the school custodians' union (unbeknownst to the union members). A grand jury also found that three other board members were guilty of impropriety, suggested that they resign. One did; the other two face ouster suits. Dan Schlafly has also gone to court to oust another building commissioner, who went from board member to the $15,000-a-year commissioner's job, a maneuver that Schlafly considers poor policy...