Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Councilors who voted to oust the Duce last July 24 were tried for their lives. But at the trial in Verona's grim, massive Castel Vecchio, built in 1335 near Diocletian's amphitheater, only six defendants were present. The others were in hiding. The judges were all Italians; no Germans took part. Many believe that the judges had been told to go as far as they liked, since the Duce would suspend the sentences in time...
From Madrid came an experienced, serious observer with a report that Spain is ripe for revolution: "I had the opportunity to talk with all sorts of people, diplomats, businessmen, Government officials of all kinds, people on the streets. Everywhere I heard talk of an inevitable blood bath to oust Francisco Franco and his dictatorship. Even high-ranking military figures confided that revolution is the only...
Most rambunctious meeting was that of the California Medical Association, which voted to try to oust Dr. Morris Fishbein as "spokesman for American medicine." Most gruesome meeting was that of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (external injury). Most exclusive meeting was that of the 225-man Association of American Physicians,* which met last week in Atlantic City (see below...
...over the portfolio of Foreign Affairs, made his son-in-law Ambassador to the Vatican. But he let Ciano save face with a seat on the Fascist Grand Council, and it was there that Ciano pulled down his house of cards about his ears: when the Council voted to oust Mussolini last July, Count Galeazzo 's vote went against his father...
...Oust to Oust. In the Yakima (Wash.) Herald appeared a want ad: "SUCKERS ONLY. We drink, smoke, gamble and use profane language. We have two children, a boy and a girl who are professional housewreckers, breaking anything handy. We have been ousted from every house we have rented, but still need a place to call home. Does anybody have courage enough to rent us a furnished two-bedroom house...