Word: oustings
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...questioned ballots are known to be legally pro-De Gasperi, entitling the democratic coalition to about 70 seats held by the Communists, and some scattered others. But the electoral reform law itself (called everywhere the "fraud law") was so unpopular, the risks and difficulties of trying to oust 70 well-entrenched and improperly seated Communists from power so great, that the Christian Democrats feared to press their legal right, and concealed their own triumph. To this day. the facts of the ballot recount have not been mentioned in any Italian newspaper...
...held by partisans. A lawyer who prosecutes under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (act this was the case for which the judicial ruling was made) is not making policy. But the new ruling, applied by future Presidents with less respect for the civil service, could reach down to oust the lowliest government typist, on the grounds that in her own small way her partisan attachments were hampering her work...
...Asked the U.N. to oust Mossadegh...
Mossadegh was a master of the divide-and-conquer technique, uniting one day with a fanatic mullah to oust a rival Premier, allying himself with the Reds the next to break the mullah. He got rid of the ablest of the Shah's advisers like Court Minister Hussein Ala; he usurped the royal prerogative of dissolving the Majlis. The outlawed Communists, for supporting him, were left untouched and grew in strength...
...ranks, Cavalryman Plastiras served with distinction in the Balkan Wars (1912-13), World War I, the postwar anti-Bolshevist Allied expedition to the Ukraine, and Greece's war against the Turks, who respectfully nicknamed him the "Black Pepper." When Greece was disastrously beaten by Turkey (1922), Plastiras helped oust King Constantine, whose regime was blamed for the defeat. In 1933, Plastiras staged another coup to forestall a Royalist comeback, ruled as dictator for 14 hours, but had to flee the country for lack of popular support. Brought back from exile in France by the British after World...