Word: overthrew
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...Ambassador Loy Henderson refused to pay blackmail to shifty, dictatorial Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. In so doing they were running a risk that Mossadegh would retaliate by turning oil-rich Iran over to the Communists. The gamble paid off when the Iranian people rose to support the Shah, overthrew Mossadegh and gave the U.S. another chance in Iran...
Nearly all of Robinson's choices are products of the Paris-bred revolution which began with Delacroix and survives today in Matisse. It overthrew the power of tobacco-juice brown and gradually raised pure color to the position of first importance in Western art. At the center of that revolution stands the creator of one of Collector Robinson's prize acquisitions: the one-eared, fox-bearded Dutchman who painted the portrait opposite, and whose 100th birthday will be celebrated this month...
From jungle clearings and Caracas villas, 2,000,000 Venezuelan voters trooped to the polls this week. Promised ever since a military junta overthrew the country's legitimately elected regime four years ago, the election was for a constitutional Congress which will design a new government and name a new President...
...five-minute ceremony in Santiago's Congressional Hall of Honor last week, General Carlos Ibanez formally donned the broad red-white-&-blue presidential sash. Thus, 21 years after Chileans overthrew his dictatorship, the general returned to office as the republic's constitutional chief, chosen in a free and fair election...
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...