Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government party. The strong man-pausing only to recount the vote's in his own favor -angrily exiled Ignacio and three of Pedro Arcaya's children for good measure. Aristocratic Don Pedro and his wife were not bothered, but the ouster of her children so outraged Senora Arcaya that she took to spending hours on the telephone denouncing the dictator to her society friends. One Christmas the elder Arcayas found their phone, ripped out and tied with a red ribbon, on the doorstep...
...command over bevers and commons was the result of the Overseers' crusade to have all undergraduates cat at Commons; the old steward having failed to enforce this order, the Corporation was forced to replace him with Hastings. If this won him his job, however, it nearly led to his ouster, too, for it set the stage for the Great Butter Rebellion...
...contention that the MVD documents produced by Petrov were forged (TIME, Oct. 31). Molotov obligingly answered yes, and Evatt set out to use Molotov as a character witness. This reassured no one. Then Evatt turned his ire on critical anti-Communists in his own party, and forced the ouster of Catholic Action groups. They set up a rival Labor Party...
...indignation of Arab-Asian countries and many Latin American nations may be so great that there will be a serious effort to eject Nationalist China altogether from the General Assembly at this session. The US might be hard put to block expulsion, even though success in preventing the ouster would require only one-third of the sixty-nation Assembly...
...chiefly responsible for the big shift is the smoothest kuromaku of them all, Nobusuke Kishi. A candid, confident pro, Kishi masterminded the formation of the Democratic Party and its ouster of Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Liberals from power last year. He is the man who put elderly (72), crippled Ichiro Hatoyama into power and is now preparing to nudge...