Word: ousting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eight teams take the plunge tonight as Kirkland and Winthrop get their last chance to oust undefeated Lowell from league supremacy. Dunster--Kirkland--Leverett, and Eliot--Winthrop--Lowell are the crucial triangular meets, with Dudley and Adams also seeing action...
...Questions. Jordana replaced Franco's brother-in-law, Serrano Suñer, a fanatical Falangist, a few weeks before the North African invasion. It was a happy freak of fortune, says Sir Samuel, that Franco chose this time to oust his ambitious brother-in-law. Had Serrano Suñer remained in office, the invasion might have miscarried. The Gibraltar airfield could have been crippled "in less than a half hour." Gibraltar bay, which had been filling with ships for days, was almost as vulnerable. Jordana was "pro-Ally to the core," discreetly looked the other way, asked...
...Bilbo, right or wrong, the question of how to unseat The Man will devolve on the Senate's 51 Republicans. Their problem: whether to refuse Bilbo a seat on charges that his election was "irregular" (which would take only a majority vote), or seat and then attempt to oust him on charges of "moral turpitude" (which would require a two-thirds vote...
John Albert Carroll, 45,husky, humorless, handsome ex-Denver policeman, who was one of the few Democrats in the nation to oust an incumbent Republican (red-faced Dean Gillespie). An ardent New Dealer, Carroll went to night school for six years to be admitted to the Colo rado bar, became Denver district attorney and an A.M.G. major in Italy...
Schlesinger is most noted for his book, "The Age of Jackson," in addition to having published his sumpia thesis as an undergraduate. Dennett is from the World Peace Foundation and Eliot has had experience in Congress. Allen and Mrs. Sharp are trying to oust Edith Nourse Rogers and Joseph Martin, respectively...