Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...topple Kassem has reached a screaming crescendo; fortnight ago Syria's tough Interior Minister, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, presided at a clandestine meeting in the Syrian town of El Haseke with anti-Kassem Iraqi army officers to discuss plans for Iraq's leadership should Kassem be overthrown. When the meeting was over, Serraj flew off to Cairo immediately to report to Nasser...
...visitors wasted no time in retaliating, as they grabbed the kickoff and marched 80 yards in nine plays for their first score. The key play in this series was an overthrown McKelvey pass on which interference was called against the Crimson. From the press box it seemed as though the safety had merely stumbled over the fallen reciver, and the fans, too, were vocal in their disapproval of the call. But the ruling stuck, and Cornell gained 25 yards on the play...
...feeling of frustrated nationalism after World War II accounted for the loss of interest in Parliament and now has forced a situation in which only the menace of violence can prevent executive action. De Gaulle's prestige and his threat to quit if the government is overthrown "holds things down...
King a prisoner. It was said that when a Rana had amassed a $30 million fortune as Prime Minister, he was expected to pass the job on to his nearest male relative. In 1951 the Ranas were overthrown with surprising ease, and the Kings of Nepal came into their own. A democratic constitution, with points of resemblance to the legal systems of Britain, India and the U.S., was drawn up, and elections held last spring...
...President of Argentina was to have been overthrown at 7 a.m. on June 19. Distrustful anti-Peronista military men, who cannot forget that Arturo Frondizi took Peronista votes to get elected last year, were determined to oust him. The fact that he now espouses austere anti-Peronista economics made them the more doubtful; to the military that looked devious. The plotters underestimated Frondizi. Last week he was still in office with a strong new Cabinet, and most of the plotters were in hiding...