Word: ousting
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Samborski plans to start his regular lineup. He calls first baseman Jim O'Brien "a greatly improved ball-player," and concedes that it will be difficult to oust either O'Brien or third sacker George Chase from their respective positions. Stocky Chuck Wade has played consistently good ball behind...
Trujillo argued persuasively that all the trouble in his part of the world was due to the tireless intrigues of Dominican, Venezuelan and Nicaraguan exiles, plotting with the Cuban, Guatemalan, Haitian, Costa Rican and Mexican governments to oust...
Double Whammy? To figure out the next step, everybody at the meeting fluttered yellow booklets called Provisional Rules of Procedure of the Security Council. If a majority of the Council nations follow the fashion of recognizing Red China, can the Council oust Tsiang? Or can Tsiang use China's Big Power veto to block this? The answer depends on whether the question of ouster is procedural (not vetoable) or substantive (vetoable). If the Council majority tries to decide that an ouster is procedural, then China may try to veto this decision before the Council goes on to a second...
...something of a special occasion-Ottawa was the last stop on the Senator's 100-day politicking tour of his home state. Election day was still nearly a year away, but Taft was taking no chances, knowing that organized labor planned to spend millions in an effort to oust him from the U.S. Senate. Toting a spare suit and a few extra shirts and socks, the Senator had traveled through 75 of Ohio's 88 counties. He had delivered more than 300 speeches to more than 200,000 persons, laid down his fight against the Democrats' Fair...
...practical way to refuse. Saadi quit as senator, was easily elected governor, then settled down to build his personal following in remote Catamarca. Presently he learned that Catamarca was perhaps not quite remote enough. From the capital came private word that President Perón was being urged to oust him on charges of graft and mismanagement...