Word: ousting
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...Oxford), Mboya had no use for Soviet and Chinese efforts to gain a foothold in Kenya. It was on that issue that Mboya and his principal political enemy, Oginga Odinga, collided. Odinga, a Luo like Mboya, is an emotional, radical tribalist with Communist leanings and support. Mboya helped oust Odinga as Vice President...
...community conspires to oust them, the hippies have been setting up well-organized but acephalous communes, with ordinances that prescribe nonviolence and charity. "We're not political," explained Gretchen Dickson, a 17-year-old blonde from Pittsburgh. "We just want to be beautiful." To relieve tension, many hippies have fled higher up into the mountains. But some 10,000 more are expected to pass through Taos this summer as word of its pristine seclusion gets around...
...leftover of the old Progressive era, the device allows citizens, by a two-stage process of petition and referendum, to oust an incumbent. Rarely attempted seriously, recall did unseat a Los Angeles mayor...
...finally happened to Harvard, too. In a sequence of confrontations that has now become a deplorable custom on American campuses, a small band of student rebels seized an administration building to protest university policies and to deliberately provoke a crisis. Police were then summoned to oust the intruders; moderate students, angered at both the fact of the "bust" and what they felt was police brutality, were radicalized into organizing a strike. The three-day boycott of classes was the first in the modern history of a venerable institution that prides itself on its devotion to learning and the rational resolution...
Pusey replied that "there are people as guilty as I of trying to interpret what the Faculty's feeling was. What is clear is that the Faculty had a clear choice to oust ROTC from campus," the President continued, "and it was voted down with a resounding thud. I think it's important that ROTC be kept here. I personally feel it's terribly important for the United States of America that college people go into the military. I do think that the government in Washington remains our government. And the military arm of that government remains...