Word: ouster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Duggan's ouster in the 75th minute, one might have supposed that the Harvard evanescent defense would have disappeared, but the booters had their best opportunity of the game in the 89th minute when Leo Lanzillo pounded a left-footed shot from the 18-yd, line that just missed the right post...
...most controversial ouster, however, was the firing of Employment Secretary James Prior, the nemesis of the Tory right wing, who had urged Thatcher to ease up on the trade unions. An extremely popular M.P. who acted as a lightning rod for disaffected Tory backbenchers, Prior had even won praise from Labor Party Leader Michael Foot as "a good man fell among monetarists." When Thatcher summoned her ministers to No. 10 Downing Street, she told Prior that he could have the thankless job of Northern Ireland Secretary-or nothing. After some hesitation he accepted the post. The choice of Norman Tebbit...
...near Cairo, Matta was summoned to Alexandria by Sadat a week before the crackdown. Sadat and Matta discussed ways of defusing the looming crisis. Sadat asked Matta how far he could push Shenouda. The abbot says he outlined Sadat's limits in dealing with the Pope. When the ouster was decided on, it was Matta who submitted the names of five bishops who would collectively take over the Pope's functions...
...began to fear for their physical safety. As Matta puts it: "All of us are in this dilemma, [because] Muslims feel Shenouda is a threat to Islam and the Koran. He was working against the line of the government and moderate Muslims." Most Copts feel that Shenouda's ouster is a tolerable price to pay for communal peace...
...Khomeini in revolutionary courts around the country. In Tabriz, a man exploded a hand grenade strapped to his waist, killing himself, Khomeini Aide Ayatullah Assadollah Madani and at least six others as they participated in noon prayers. At week's end, for the first time since the ouster of President Abolhassan Banisadr, anti-Khomeini demonstrators took to the streets to vent their anger...