Word: overthrew
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...trying to make a revolution." Hooker said of the left-wing Sandinista government that in 1979 overthrew the right-wing U.S. backed Somoza clan, adding that he fears the Reagan Administration's intervention will prevent the revolution's success...
...Soviet military base...it is hard to understand how, if the Soviets really thought a Grenadan air facility was important, they could not have built even one runway on Grenada in less than three years." The reason we came out smelling like a rose is that we overthrew a different government than the one we had planned to. Instead of the moderately popular government headed by Cuban ally Maurice Bishop, we toppled the unpopular three-week-old regime of Hudson Austin...
...vote. Yet after the tension of the preliminaries, election day in Nicaragua last Sunday came as something of an anticlimax. There was little of the exuberance, or the fear, that had been variously predicted for the country's first trip to the polls since the 1979 revolution that overthrew Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. Indeed, the Nicaraguan election mood was one of indifference, as citizens lined up to make their choices, then ink their thumbs as a guarantee against double voting. Random visits to polling sites seemed to show that participation by the country's 1.6 million voters...
...liberation in Central America. The mining of the harbor, the CIA manual and the contra funding hurt American prestige and are ineffectual, as liberals claim. The point they miss is that all of these efforts, like Walter F. Mondale's proposed quarantine, are aimed at destroying a government that overthrew a U.S.-sponsored dictatorship which repressed its poverty stricken citizens...
Facing fourth and 11 with only 2:40 remaining, Eliot went for broke. Hall overthrew his Hall Mary attempt, however, and Quincy House took over, needing only to run out the clock to clinch the intramural crown...