Word: ouster
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...more important reason for Barak's ouster is that he enjoyed a personal following inside the party, unlike the friendless and ruthless Novotny. Furthermore, Barak was Czechoslovakia's only ranking Red leader untainted by a Stalinist past, and he probably advocated genuine destalinization. Obviously, if real destalinization had swept Czechoslovakia, Novotny-not Barak-would have been the first to fall...
...Argentina, who long publicly shunned another marriage for fear it might smash his daydream of returning to power in the nation that once wanted to canonize his late wife Evita; and Isabel Martinez, 27, petite blonde "secretary" who has been his constant companion since shortly after his 1955 ouster and whom he began introducing socially as "my wife" after Christmas Eve Mass in Madrid; under unknown circumstances but probably in Panama soon after Perón's eviction from Argentina; he for the third time, she for the first...
...evening in a small Mississippi town, while helping some students protest their ouster from a segregated high school, McDew and many others were arrested...
...year that saw the hip little world of Author Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, go clamorously smash -from last November's stabbing of his wife to his ignominious ouster from a February poetry reading for an alleged "raw recital of filth"-was ending amid the sweet smell of vindication. A Manhattan judge who likes to "gamble on human beings" last week gambled on a suspended sentence for confessed Spouse-Assaulter Mailer. Simultaneously, Mailer's Manhattan publisher, G. P. Putnam's Sons, was venturing a different sort of risk: release of the first collection...
...have learned to smile in the face of the Russian bear, kept calm. For 17 years Finland has managed the most spectacular balancing act in Europe. Perched on Russia's doorstep, Finland has had to permit Soviet meddling in its internal affairs to the point of allowing the ouster of anti-Communist Cabinet ministers; nevertheless, the country has remained strongly independent and has prospered economically while maintaining a vigorous democracy...