Word: overthrew
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...everyone knows, the temporal power of the Tenno (King of Heaven: Emperor) was eclipsed by that of the Shoguns or Tycoons ("High Princes") from the Seventh Century until the Nineteenth. It was, in fact, the great Emperor Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who overthrew the last Shogun of Japan, Keiki, in 1868, and restored the imperial dynasty...
Presidents Wilson, Harding and Coolidge kept U. S. marines in continuous occupation of the capital of Nicaragua for 13 years (1912-25). No sooner were the marines withdrawn (TIME, July 13, 1925) than General Chamorro overthrew the Liberal Administration elected during the U. S. occupation and has carried on as "President" ever since though recognized by no foreign power...
First to feel the prickle of a noose was Dr. Nazim Pasha, founder of the Young Turk movement which overthrew "Abdul the Damned" (Abd-ul-Hamid II) in 1909, and dictated the government of Turkey as a Pan-Islamic oligarchy throughout the World...
...pressmen sought "gruff and bluff" Marshall Josef Pilsudski, who recently overthrew the Polish Government (TIME, May 24), at his General Staff Headquarters...
...Krim. ... 5) The Califate Congress which met last week has already been repudiated by Sultan Ibn Saud, who has summoned a rival Califate Congress to meet at Mecca, next month - presumably on the theory that he seized the Califate from the Kings of the Hejaz when he overthrew them last year...