Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well-heeled and powerful opposition overthrew the old, corrupt political machine bossed...
...always identified itself with the motto on Brazil's flag: "Order and Progress." This has meant, by & large, an affinity for the democracy which has characterized the country's modern history. It was the army which took over the republican movement from the disgruntled ex-slaveholders and overthrew Dom Pedro II in 1889. The first two Presidents under the republic's U.S.-patterned constitution were army officers. After that, under a long line of civilian Presidents, the army upheld the constitution...
...McInnis influence was clearly visible to the naked eye. In the fifth inning, Steve Howe took a line drive in short right field and overthrew first, trying for a double play. In the old style of play, this would have meant at least a two-base advance for the runner. Not so this year, apparently. Catcher Cliff Crosby appeared to catch the throw intact, as it were, and the situation remained under control...
...newspaper clippings, they smiled in triumph. The clippings were from the Havana weekly Bohemia. Among them was an article by Andres Eloy Blanco, Foreign Minister in the ousted Gallegos regime. It described an exchange of letters between Harry Truman and Gallegos on U.S. recognition of the military junta that overthrew Gallegos. * To the representatives of Venezuela's revolutionary government, such a document was subversive...
Isacson recently overthrew Boss Flynn's machine to win a special Congressional election in the Bronx...