Word: ousting
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...campaign, Adenauer sorely embarrassed his successor by electioneering up and down the Rhine, pressing for closer cooperation with Charles de Gaulle, needling Erhard's favorite ally, the U.S., for its supposed nuclear "sellout," and hardly disguising his desire for coalition with the Social Democrats, who were determined to oust Erhard from office...
...García-Godoy's government is under mounting pressure from all sides, and survives primarily because he has 9,200 OAS troops behind him. The country's military is increasingly bitter about the leftists in the Cabinet, and last week forced García-Godoy to oust a key minister: Attorney General Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda, who is accused in sworn testimony of being a Communist-which he denies though he makes no secret of his partiality for ex-President Juan Bosch and the rebels who originally triggered the civil...
Curtis has also made a substantial recovery from the internal revolt that shook it last year. When Editor in Chief Clay Blair Jr., whose policy of "sophisticated muckraking" involved the Post in costly libel suits, tried to oust President Matthew Culligan, Curtis dumped them both. But not before the entire organization had suffered. The Culligan-Blair regime was a textbook example of mismanagement. Now that Blair is gone and Culligan has been replaced by John Clifford, a one-time NBC vice president, the editorial operation appears to be calming down. "For years we've heard nothing but the snap...
...flowing with champagne. Heady with power, he declares his town an independent state and begins to build monuments to his own magnificence. The labor is supplied by the townspeople, who go singing to work under his hypnotic command and really want nothing more. When government forces are dispatched to oust him, he magnetically muddles their minds and they get lost in a nearby wood...
...When 200,000 Chinese Nationalist troops marched into Viet Nam with French approval at war's end, Giap's guerrillas were ready to continue the struggle. But Ho typically preferred the more subtle tactic of turning ally against ally, and promptly sought to persuade the French to oust the Chinese again. Ho knew that France would be an easier adversary to deal with. Besides, there was the age-old hatred and fear of the Chinese. As Ho told his "United Front" allies who urged cooperation with the Chinese: "I prefer to smell French merde for five years than...