Word: overthrew
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Nearly six years ago, Indiana's Republican Congressman Charles Halleck overthrew aging Joe Martin as his party's House floor leader. In so doing, Halleck got vital help from a small but powerful group of young insurgents, including Michigan's Gerald Ford, who wanted a more aggressive, positive leader. In Halleck, they got all the aggressiveness they could stomach, and very little positivism. Last week Jerry Ford and his rebels were out to oust Charlie Halleck...
Quincy had two long scoring plays called back and lost to Ezra Stiles, 6-0. Winthrop, after a scoreless afternoon, drove to Trumbull's 20-yard line on a 60-yard Mitch Sikora pass, but Sikora overthrew Doug Broadwater in the end zone on the final play...
...less successful were the Argentine generals who ousted Arturo Frondizi in 1962 only to compound their country's problems and transfer the mess to a weak President Arturo Illia. In the Dominican Republic, the military overthrew the inept Juan Bosch, then turned over power to a triply inept civilian triumvirate. And in Honduras, the army officers who toppled President Ramon Villeda Morales last year are slowly running the country's faltering economy into the ground...
...malnutrition, a common fate where even the biggest daily is hard put to it to muster 35,000 readers, run the risk of offending the government. The late President Diem controlled the press with a heavy hand. And, after a temporary lull, so did the junta government that overthrew him. Last week Major General Nguyen Khanh, who overthrew Diem's over-throwers last January, demonstrated that he was no different from any of his predecessors. In two successive days he ordered seven Saigon dailies out of print...
...matter of history by this time, however, that during the terms of Arevalo and his successor Jacobo Arbenz, Communism rose to ascendency. Finally in 1954 a C.I.A.-inspired invasion overthrew Arbenz, and rightist democratic regimes followed...