Word: overthrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venezuela has not had an election-or a session of Congress, for that matter-since its ruling junta overthrew the country's only popularly elected government in November 1948. Last week a hand-picked electoral council announced that an election for members of a constitutional assembly will be held Nov. 30. Between now and then, the 2,000,000 registered voters will hear very little but good about the junta; opposition electioneering is hamstrung. It is predictable that the assembly, which is to write a new constitution and name a provisional President until general elections can be arranged, will...
...entirely to the Bulldog's credit. The gears of the Princeton machine simply jammed for a time somewhere between first and second, and it wasn't until the end of the game that Caldwell got them into overdrive. Blocking was sloppy. Anti-Tiger penalties were numerous. Dick Kazmaier consistently overthrew his ends in the warmup and kept it up in the game...
...unanimous vote, the Assembly found Arias guilty of violating the constitution and barred him for life from holding public office in Panama. The prisoner was taken back to jail to wait out a threatened charge of shooting a police officer during the popular uprising that overthrew his regime...
Uselessness is one of these drawbacks. H. 426 would permit the Attorney General to investigate any group for possible subversive activities, and would declare teaching or advocating treason or the violent overthrew of the government illegal. However, this does not offer any new way of discovering actual conspirers, which are adequately covered already, what it does is deprive the Communists of a place on the ballot, which would not be much of a loss to them. In fact, the party would gain a strong propaganda point...
...Chinese people, he said, have arisen. "The Chinese people, who victoriously overthrew the rule on China's mainland of Japanese imperialism, and of American imperialism and its lackey Chiang Kaishek, will certainly succeed in driving out the United States aggressors and recover Taiwan [Formosa] and all other territories that belong to China ... As a result of the victories of the great Socialist October Revolution of the Soviet Union, of the anti-Fascist second World War, and of the great revolution of the Chinese people, all the oppressed nations and people of the East have awakened and organized themselves...