Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been further alleged in letters of graduates that a partial cause of the change is Dean Hudunt's desire to oust Professor Hubbard, current head of the department...
Loudest caterwauling came from New York, where Tom Dewey and New York County Chairman Kenneth Simpson came within an ace of saying what they thought about one another. A longstanding, bitter, personal enmity came out into the open. Said Deweyman Warren B. Ashmead, Queens County committeeman trying to oust Mr. Simpson as national committeeman: "There had to be a showdown sooner or later." Said Mr. Simpson: "I am now of course relieved from any further favorite-son support of Mr. Dewey...
...final assault on Narvik started after a warning had been broadcast to civilians by the British naval commander and leaflets had been dropped from airplanes saying that the Allies were ready to hammer the port from land, sea, and air to oust the Germans...
During the past two years the Japanese have bought up large real-estate holdings in order to control more votes. Three weeks ago they announced they would run five instead of the usual two Japanese candidates. They hoped to marshal enough votes to oust three British Councilmen, elect the three extra Japanese. If they could get them elected, and then coerce the five Chinese Councilmen, Japan could put the final squeeze on foreign business in China...
...girl), made the Russell appointment her business because her daughter might be going to C. C. N. Y. some day soon. A roly-poly lawyer named Joseph Goldstein sprang to her aid. Under his guidance she filed a taxpayer's suit in New York Supreme Court to oust the Earl, on grounds that he was an alien and an advocate of sexual immorality...