Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world has known many tyrants, but few were as reckless, as demanding, as pretentious, as noisy and, at the end, as rejected as Kwame Nkrumah. He was the founder of his country and had been the very symbol of black African independence. Yet last week when he was overthrown, scarcely a tear was shed for him in Africa or anywhere else in the world...
...when World War II broke out, remembers tearful farewells to her two brothers when they went off to war. Writer Bruce Henderson was still in high school when World War II ended, but he was an Associated Press reporter in Buenos Aires in 1955 when Perón was overthrown. Later, as TIME's man in the Caribbean, he covered the fall of Batista and the emergence of Castro in Cuba...
...Diem turned them into a family guard and on occasion played them off against the army. He created a subdivision known as the "combat police" that he used to raid pagodas during the feud with the Buddhists that ultimately led to his downfall. After Diem's government was overthrown, the canh sat were so demoralized that the Americans often called them "the white mice" because of their timidity...
Bayonet Rule. Now, 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...
Though the pass was overthrown, Calderwood virtually tackled the Cornell defender. The red flag went down and the offensive interference penalty moved the bail back to the 26 yard line. From this point Jim Babooch attempted a 53 yard field goal, which predictably failed...