Word: ousted
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NCAA weight titlist Ed Nosal is heavily favored in the hammer, but he will need a clutch performance to oust Princeton's Steve Saner in the shot and discus. Frank Champi and Richie Szaro appear impregnable in the javelin for Harvard...
...achieve a quick and impressive result, as may well happen, a reaction could set in. As it is, former Christian Democratic Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger is already expressing concern about the consequences of Brandt's diplomatic initiatives. It is no secret that Kiesinger would welcome an opportunity to oust Brandt, who holds only a twelve-seat majority in the 496-seat Bundestag, and form a government of his own. Is Moscow aware of Brandt's problems? Said a Soviet diplomat: "That is Brandt's affair, not ours." But the unspoken Soviet attitude is that Brandt is a promising...
...Catholic to the White House and the first black since Reconstruction to the Senate, a Jesuit priest, Robert Drinan, is seeking a Democratic congressional nomination. Drinan, 49, former vice president and law school dean of Boston College, has the support of a citizens' caucus as he seeks to oust Incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin, 71, a 14-term veteran who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Though Philbin is favored, Drinan's liberalism and antiwar stand are popular with his district's relatively affluent, middle-class voters. These qualities, combined with his age, make Drinan...
...progressive innovator. He led in nominating good-government candidates like Robert Wagner for mayor and Averell Harriman for Governor. He broke the Irish monopoly that had previously ruled Tammany. The Bishop liberalized organization rules to such an extent that a new generation of rebels was able to oust him-ironically, with Wagner's help. The kind of scandal that often tars machine politicians never seriously stained him until after his retirement. Last year he was charged in a bribery conspiracy; last week he got a two-year sentence. The situation was hardly unique, but the scale seemed all wrong...
John F, Kerry, the Navy dove trying to oust Philip J. Philbin (D-Mass) in the September 15 primary, came in a close second place to Rev. Robert S. Drinan at a caucus held on Saturday...