Word: overthrown
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...democratic governments in Latin America have been overthrown by military revolts during the past eighteen months. Constitutional regimes in the Dominican Republic and Honduras fell within a week of each other in September...
...resistance, and gunfire rattled through the cobblestoned streets. Honduras' President made a last desperate phone call to Ambassador Burrows for U.S. help. But Washington could not act that fast-if indeed it knew what to do. Over the radio came the classic announcement: "The patriotic armed forces" had overthrown the President "to end flagrant violations of the constitution and obvious Communist infiltration...
...three men are charged with assembling "for the purpose of advocating and teaching the doctrine that the government of the United States and or the State of Indiana, should be overthrown by force, violence, or any unlawful means." The maximum penalty is six years in jail...
...pretty ordinary year. There was the test ban treaty, of course, but we were due for a period of cooperation with the Russians. The economy has remained pretty stable, corporate profits are good, gold is flowing from Fort Knox as usual, the normal number of governments have been overthrown, and the Yankees won the American League pennant...
...side signed Venezuela's preliminary declaration of independence in 1810. Sosa Rodríguez was ambassador in London when Marcos Pérez Jiménez made himself President in 1952. He went into self-exile, returned when Dictator Pérez Jiménez was overthrown, and since 1958 has been Venezuela's permanent representative...