Word: overthrowing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most successful ways to attack a conspiracy is to destroy its leadership," said Brownell. "Altogether, since 1948, 105 of the principal leaders of the Communist Party have been, indicted . . . [or] convicted of conspiring the overthrow of our Government by force and violence...
...Strip citizenship from persons convicted of conspiring to overthrow the Government...
After narrowly escaping assassination last week, Nicaragua's durable Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza smashed what appeared to be the best-organized conspiracy to overthrow him since he grabbed power 20 years...
...Hell," he rumbled, "it's no crime to overthrow a government in a fair fight, but murder is something else...
...Italians, Kesselring is bitter about his old Axis partners. The Italians showed "poor fighting quality." They did not take the war "with the seriousness demanded." They hoarded "vast stores of unused war material." Allied assaults on Italian divisions "invariably resulted in loss of the position." Reflecting on the overthrow of Mussolini, Kesselring writes: "It was only to be expected that as the war went on the Italians would try to make things easier for themselves by ratting to the other side." Italian "treachery" notwithstanding, he claims and probably deserves credit for sparing such culturally rich towns as Orvieto, Perugia, Urbino...