Word: ousting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Neither Schiffman, Rosenbaum's former moot court partner at the Harvard Law School, nor Helm would comment on the case of the conflict, but sources contacted yesterday said their resignations and unsuccessful attempt to oust Rosenbaum as coach stemmed in part from charges that Rosenbaum acted "unethically" in trying to influence the judges in the Debate Council's high school tournament held at Harvard two weeks...
Williams, the daughter of a Northamptonshire builder, came to Wilson's attention after she used information gleaned as a typist at Labor Party headquarters to warn the future P.M. that a group of intraparty enemies was trying to oust him from a key committee. Hired by her grateful beneficiary in 1956, the attractive blonde gradually acquired Wilson's unquestioned confidence-and a power over party matters that made her the terror of his "kitchen-cabinet" Labor cronies. It was hardly a secret that among those on her list of less-favored was Haines, 49, practitioner of an abrasive...
Dean Fox's proposal to oust freshmen from the Quad is a scandalous attempt at wrecking one of the last alternative lifestyles at Harvard (is it paranoia, or do I detect the silhouette of the infamous 1-1-2 plan lurking at the sidelines, waiting for its cue?). The timing of the Administration's actions--reading and exam period securely bolting, or so they think, the doors to student concern and participation--epitomizes the slimy, macchiavellian, fetid, underhanded, unscrupulous and most questionable manner in which the Administration has traditionally managed to impose its bureaucratic wet-dreams upon the lives...
PHILLIP BURTON, 50, a prickly, hyperaggressive liberal Californian who began his race for leader more than a year ago and is generally considered the front runner with an estimated 100 votes pledged to him. Burton played a key role in early 1975 in thwarting a move to oust Wayne Hays from his chairmanship of the House Administration Committee. When Hays was forced to resign after the disclosure that he kept bosomy Elizabeth Ray on the Government payroll. Burton lost some support. Though Burton insists, "Tip and I will work very well together," the two men are often at odds; twice...
...files" (for official and confidential), they were crammed with salacious tidbits about the private manners and morals of politicians and other public figures, ready to be used or not used at the director's discretion. Every President was reluctant to tangle with Hoover, much less try to oust him, because he had such a strong popular following in the U.S. He could also retaliate with the ammunition he kept in his locked cabinets...