Word: overthrew
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When it comes to staging military coups, Honduras' swarthy Army Commander General Oswaldo López Arellano, 53, has had plenty of on-the-job training. In 1963 he overthrew the liberal government of Dr. Ramón Villeda Morales in order to end what the general described as "flagrant violations of the constitution." López's eight-year rule was notable mostly for the four-day "football war" with its neighbor El Salvador in 1969, a skirmish that started after Honduras claimed that its honor had been insulted during a soccer game between the two countries...
...involvement in "honor," the Soviet leaders may well conclude that the U.S. preferred hegemony in South Vietnam to "honor." Whatever steps the Soviets decide to take--and these are still unknown at the time of writing--the Moscow leaders will have to keep another important fact in mind: they overthrew their predecessor Khruschev who was ineffectual and who backed down at the expense of an ally in the face of U.S. demands at the time of the Cuban missile crisis...
With the bases loaded and one away. O'Neill coaxed the Brandeis batter into grounding to Thomas at third. Thomas converted the play to an out at second, but Rick Wolff overthrew first in the attempted double play. Two unearned runs scored, shaving the Harvard lead to one run. Reliever Norm Walsh was called upon to stop the rally, and a strong job by the sophomore hurler extinguished the threat. Walsh finished up the game with an easy ninth inning...
...pitcher Sandy Weissant started off a Crimson rally in the third by singling and advancing to second on a passed ball. An infield single and a stolen base by Kevin Hampe put runners on second and third with two out, and they both came home when the third baseman overthrew first on a grounder by Toby Harvey...
...former merchant mariner who bore an uncanny resemblance to the late Heavyweight Boxer Sonny Listen, Karume came to power in a black-led revolution that overthrew the islands' Arab sultan in January 1964. Zanzibar, which lies 24 miles off the East African coast, united with mainland Tanganyika three months later to form the United Republic of Tanzania. The islands retained their own army and remained a tyrannical law unto themselves. Karume, a Moslem, became First Vice President of the union under Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere; in practice he remained the sole ruler of Zanzibar and rarely visited...