Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Iran's neighbors about the Shah's geopolitical ambitions. Will the people and, above all, the army remain loyal if the grand goals of the white revolution are unrealized and if untrammeled economic progress outstrips social growth? After all, some are still alive who witnessed the ouster of the last monarch but one by an ambitious, dissatisfied soldier. On the record so far, the future favors the Shah. Between oil and ambition, therefore, he and his developing nation are bound to be increasingly visible, increasingly vocal and increasingly vital...
...voted overwhelmingly for LeMaistre's resignation. Said History Professor Standish Meacham: "It was done in the best Texas bushwacker tradition. He was fired in the wrong way on a trumped-up charge." Lady Bird Johnson, the only regent who abstained from the 8-to-O vote upholding the ouster, said in a choked voice, "No great educational institution can sustain its greatness with the frequent and sudden firing of its presidents and deans...
Before the Second Vatican Council, that meant salvation was limited to Roman Catholics, but even the anti-liberal Pope Pius IX offered hope to "invincibly ignorant" outsiders. Feeney offered damnation. Feeney retained a following at the nearby Catholic intellectual center he continued to operate after his ouster from Boston College. In 1958 he moved to Harvard, Mass., setting up a farm commune with his followers, the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary...
...moratorium on using the books and the appointment of an 18-member citizens' review committee. But when school resumed, nearly 1,000 shouting demonstrators, led by other preachers, submitted a list of new demands, including immediate removal of the offending books, Underwood's ouster and the reinstatement of workers dismissed for striking illegally...
...scholarships abroad. He did little to initiate changes that might have raised Ethiopia from its position as one of Africa's poorest, least literate and most corrupt nations. His failure to act on economic and social problems triggered the military protests last February and led inexorably to his ouster...