Word: overthrew
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When U.S. forces overthrew Saddam Hussein 15 months ago, the Bush Administration proclaimed that women's rights would be a centerpiece of its project to make Iraq a democratic model for the rest of the Arab world. But for many Iraqi women, the tyranny of Saddam's regime has been replaced by chronic violence and growing religious conservatism that have stifled their hopes for wider freedoms--and, for many, put their lives in even greater peril. For women like Shaima, the most terrifying development has been the rash of honor killings committed by Iraqi men against sisters, wives, daughters...
...hemisphere's second republic was created. However, there were no congratulatory salutes from the first, the United States of America. The new republic, Haiti, had gained its independence through a bloody 12-year slave uprising--the only time in the history of the world in which bond servants successfully overthrew their masters and formed their own state...
...thousands of refugees made their way to U.S. shores to escape violence and repression in Haiti, and their initial incarceration at the U.S. military facility at Guantanamo Bay was an election issue in the Sunshine State in 1992. It was the flow of refugees following the 1991 coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1991 that eventually prompted the Clinton administration in 1994 to send in the troops...
...despite his gaudy numbers, Fitzpatrick was rattled by the interception and two other passes that came dangerously close to being picked off. He didn’t appear comfortable rushing when forced to scramble out of the pocket and overthrew several receivers in the first half...
...Neill, heavily reliant on timing and feeling the pressure early, never became comfortable and repeatedly overthrew his wide open receivers...