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Word: ousts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...votes as any of the larger contests aired at the GOP convention, has simply shifted from the convention floor, where viewers glimpsed it only during the ludicrous moments when the threeman delegation was polled, to the National Committee, where Eisenhower enthusiasts in Puerto Rico have filed suit to oust the pro-Taft National Committeeman and woman...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Discovery of a Principle in a Nutshell | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Whether, in this interval, Heselton threatened Brown with a point of order to oust both delegations altogether--which was possible because of their fardy registration or whether it was a matter of simple persuasion. Brown withdrew his point of order after supper. With five minutes allotted to each side, the Committee began examination of the case...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Discovery of a Principle in a Nutshell | 9/15/1952 | See Source »

Makki, Mossadegh's fiery No. 1 aide. They were determined to get Mossadegh back into office, and to oust wealthy and adroit old Premier Ahmed Qavam (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Strong Man | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

Behind Shuttleworth's acquittal lay more than softheadedness on the part of Prime Minister Daniel Malan's hardhearted government. The Nationalists are thoroughly alarmed by the uproar provoked in South Africa's armed forces by Defense Minister Erasmus' highhanded attempt to oust veterans of World War II in favor of Nationalist political toadies (TIME, March 24). The troops responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Military Joke | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

Orthodoxy & Battlefields. Moderator Macartney had led the fight of Presbyterian fundamentalists (he prefers the term "orthodox") to oust the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, leading theological modernist, from the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Attracted by Macartney's reputation, Pittsburgh Presbyterians asked him, in 1927, to take over the ministry of their own First Church, long one of the most influential in U.S. Presbyterianism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preach the West Wind | 7/21/1952 | See Source »

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