Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Celal Bayar did not want to be President of Turkey. He preferred to stay offstage as boss of the Democratic Party which overthrew the long-entrenched People's Party in Turkey's first honest elections two weeks ago. But this week when the new National Assembly met for the first time, its strong Democratic majority overruled 67-year-old Celal Bayar and elected him President. Bayar, an advocate of less government interference with business, chose as Premier Adnan Menderes, a wealthy landowner of Aydin...
...only real labor leadership in the Venezuelan oilfields since the junta overthrew President Romulo Gallegos in 1948 has been Communist. One of the first things the junta did on coming to power was to jail, exile or drive underground all labor chieftains belonging to Gallegos' New-Dealing Acción Democrática party. That opened the door for the Communists...
Died. Marshal Fezvi Cakmak, 74, Turkish defender of the Dardanelles in World War I, hero of the war of liberation that overthrew Sultan Mohamed VI ; after long illness; in Istanbul. The only Turkish general besides Kemal Atatürk honored with marshal's rank, Cakmak served as army chief of staff for 20 years...
Downs explained that modern music "sounds so terrible" because the originators overthrew form and harmony to say something which they could not say in the rigid classical style. Hindemith added that the main consideration in modern music should concern whether it fulfills its purpose in our life...