Word: overthrew
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...longer they waited, the more sullen they grew, and the more receptive they became to the fanaticism of the Moslem Brotherhood and the rabblerousing of Communist agitators. Firebrands among them killed Jordan's King Abdullah (for compromising with Israel), overthrew governments and raided into Israel, setting off a chain of attacks and reprisals that led straight to the massacres at Kibya and Scorpion's Pass...
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, the deadpan little insurgent who overthrew the pro-Communist government of Guatemala, came back in triumph last week to his country's capital. Guatemalans greeted him with firecrackers, kisses and backslapping embraces. At the bunting-draped central plaza, where 20,000 people yelled themselves hoarse, a huge picture of the rebel leader hung from the palace and cathedral bells pealed joyously. Later, as he had said he would, Castillo Armas dined in the palace...
After Lieut. General Gustavo Rojas Pinilla overthrew the ultra-Conservative regime of President Laureano Gomez last summer, some U.S. Protestant missionaries hopefully reported an apparent slackening in government restrictions on Protestants in Colombia. But President Rojas is a Conservative too, and state Catholicism is a prime plank of any Conservative government in Colombia. Last September the Rojas regime banned Protestant activity in 18 "mission territories" in remote parts of the country. Last week the government announced a further curb: Protestants may no longer engage in religious activities outside their churches, though within the churches they will not be molested...
...slashing night ride, he and a handful of followers recaptured the ancestral capital and palace of Riyadh. Soon after World War I, he had united all the tribes of the Nejd under his rule; next, he overthrew the Saud enemy, Sherif Hussein of Mecca, and blended the Hejaz into his domain...
...Returned in triumph, after street mobs overthrew Mossadegh...