Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement contradicts the Kennedy Administration's assumption that must be overthrown and that the question remaining is one of method. The American effort in this direction "seriously endangers the pursuit of our most vital interests in world affairs," the statement claims...
...Castro's Cuba, the New Frontier had a sort of Guatemala (where the U.S. encouraged the coup that ousted left-wing Dictator Jacobo Arbenz in June 1954). At his press conference the President limited U.S. responsibility for the war talk of exiled Cubans eager to see Castro overthrown. "There will not be under any conditions," he said, "an intervention in Cuba by U.S. armed forces." But policymaking New Frontiersmen, convinced that the U.S. will be blamed for any anti-Castro revolt, were prepared to give solid assistance (short of troop support) to ensure that a coup does not fail...
...story teller to two groups of collective farmers who are trying to decide who will have possession of a valley stream, its former owners, the goatherds, or those who now need it, the planters. He tells of a revolution in which the governor of a Caucasian city is overthrown and his wife forced to abandon their child. Grusha, a simple peasant girl, rescues him, carries him to the distant home of her brother, pursued all the way by Ironshirts, and eventually marries a dying man so that the child will not be raised a bastard. The peasant she marries...
...Among all the leaders of the Turkish regime overthrown by last May's military revolution, the toughest was President Celal Bayar, 77, a veteran of the bomb-throwing resistance to the Ottoman tyranny before World War I. He is also the man most Turks consider responsible for inspiring the most onerous of the policies of the old government. Last week, on the eve of the scheduled trial of Turkey's deposed rulers, the old terrorist tried to escape the execution he expects. In the island prison near Istanbul where he is being held along with ex-Premier Adnan...
...touchdown, the varsity--with sophomores Bill Hatch and Hobie Armstrong doing most of the running--moved 41 yards on the ground to a third and 4 on the Cornell 40. Here Yovicain sent in Tom Boome to try the right half-back option pass to Armstrong; it was overthrown and the Crimson had to punt A little later, with fourth and 4 on the Big Red 34, Bartolet chose to punt and kicked into the end zone; Cornell took over and moved 80 yards to its second touchdown on its only sustained march of the afternoon...