Word: overthrew
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...Governor always landed on his feet. The charges against him somehow got dropped in time for him to run for office again (including twice, unsuccessfully, for President). His strident anti-Communism-plus the 30,000 state troopers at his command-won him a place in the 1964 revolution that overthrew Jango Goulart. True enough, he had a few bad moments when the reform-bent military regime started out with a purge of corrupt politicians, but his name never appeared on the purge lists. Friends among the top brass managed to cross it off in the nick of time...
...military regime coexist with an elected Parliament? Four months ago, when General Joseph Mobutu overthrew the Congo's perennially squabbling civilian government, he gave coexistence a try. Announcing that the nation would be under military rule for five years, Mobutu nevertheless allowed Parliament to stay open to approve his decrees and constitutional amendments...
...year. On fourth down and five yards to go John McCluskey pitched out to halfback Don Sadoski, who rolled to the right. Near the right sideline, Sadoski had five yards of unpopulated turf before him--and almost certainly could have run for the crucial first down. Instead, he overthrew a pass to Wally Grant far downfield; to make matters worse, Sadoski was past the line of scrimmage when he threw...
...still alert and spry at 84, Kerensky has written a book that is part autobiography, part a narrative history of how he rose to power and ruled Russia for 31 fleeting months before he was overthrown. Three months later Red sailors forced their way into the Constituent Assembly and overthrew the elected government. His "turning point" is not the usual, lumped-together Russian Revolution as a whole; rather, it is the catastrophic overturn of his humanist, basically democratic regime by what turned out to be the brutal, wholly totalitarian Bolsheviks. It is a point the world has never fully grasped...
...into a crowd of hostile Republicans, and the two groups eyed one another dangerously. "Leave them alone," Demirel cried to his friends. "If they want to kill me, let them. I shall die for the nation." His antics prompted ailing President Cemal Gursel, 70, head of the junta that overthrew Menderes, to hint that if Demirel tries strong-arm tactics now or after the election, the military will force him to desist. "We are not a mature nation," said Gursel. "We take many roads, legal and illegal and sometimes dangerous, to exploit the people. I promise that no one ever...