Word: overthrow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...build-up of Soviet militancy towards the West. He explained that many Russian objected to Khrushchev's tactics in meeting the Chinese challenge, but not to his basic policy. Griffith agreed with Fainsod that a "general complex of overextension in Khrushchev's policies" was responsible for the premier's overthrow...
First of the big stories to break in the hottest week of international news in years was the scandal in the White House. Then in quick succession came the overthrow in Moscow and the bomb in China. As one big story piled on top of another, about all that journalists reporting by the minute or the hour or the day could do, as one editor said (see PRESS), was "throw it at" the public. In a position to look at the news at greater length and depth, TIME correspondents around the world and writers and editors in New York...
Good Old Rules? To start it off, the Soviet Union orbited the earth's first three-passenger spaceship, indicating that the Russians maintain at least a two-year lead over the U.S. The overthrow of Nikita Khrushchev raised anew the question of what kind of Communist enemy the U.S. faces. The election of a new Labor government in Britain posed for the U.S. the problem of establishing a new set of relationships with one of its oldest, staunchest allies. And the news that Communist China had exploded a nuclear device revived vivid fears in the hearts of many peoples...
...Eisenhower heart attack, the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy assassination-and it usually takes days or even weeks to regain its equilibrium. Last week certainly produced enough news to unsettle Wall Street, but this time the market's reaction was different. Despite the Jenkins scandal, the Kremlin overthrow, the Chinese bomb and Labor's victory in Britain, the market dipped for only a few hours, quickly reversed direction, and by week's end had made up practically all its losses...
...oaths for union leaders under the Taft-Hartley Act, Black tartly informed his colleagues that "the First Amendment forbids compromise." When the Court upheld the 1951 conviction of Communist leaders for teaching and advocating violent overthrow of the Government-thereby upholding the Smith Act, heir to World War I's Sedition Act-Black protested that the decision "waters down the First Amendment so that it amounts to little more than an admonition to Congress." He was trying to save principles, not Communists...