Word: overthrew
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...Leopards' second play of the drive, Yarberough ran by Harvard junior cornerback Willie Alford and senior strong safety Mike Brooks to get open deep, but junior quarterback Chad Ritchie overthrew him on the play. Yarberough beat Harvard deep again on the next play, this time victimizing sophomore free safety Niall Murphy and reeling in the pass at Harvard's 35-yard line...
Defensively, the Crimson was lucky as well as good. In the second quarter Ritchie overthrew several receivers who had gotten open deep, and Harvard was unable to mount much of a pass rush...
...unsettling show for those of programmatic mind, just because it is so inclusive. It shows us the stuff that modernism overthrew, along with plenty of samples of modernism itself. It is, for this reason, fascinating. It is also unmethodical, a show with no ideology of taste. It will therefore be hated by all those who believe in the founding mission of the Guggenheim: to establish modernism, and in particular abstract art, as the ultimate and spiritually obligatory art of the 20th century, to render monumental the gap between past and present...
...Without the mercenaries organizing the government's defenses, the RUF wrought havoc in the countryside, and then a coup by former Strasser loyalists led by Colonel Johnny Paul Koroma overthrew Kabbah and invited the RUF into the capital for an orgy of bloodletting and looting. The West urged Nigeria to take charge, and in February 1998 the ECOMOG intervention force seized Freetown, restored Kabbah to power and arrested Foday Sankoh, who was later sentenced to death. But a year later, the RUF overwhelmed ECOMOG and recaptured the capital, freeing Sankoh and savaging the civilian population. Government control was only restored...
...sanctions against certain luxury imports and to negotiate the rapid unfreezing of billions of dollars of Iranian assets impounded in the U.S. after the Islamic revolution of 1979. More important, perhaps, she will acknowledge previous U.S. mistakes in dealing with Iran - notably CIA involvement in the 1953 coup that overthrew an elected government and restored the monarchy, which was finally overthrown in 1979, and the Reagan administration's support for Iraq during that country's eight-year war with Iran...