Word: overthrown
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...Yankeeism swept through some of the hemisphere's countries. Students squawked in demonstrations in Panama, Uruguay, Chile Peru, Cuba, Argentina and Honduras: a U.S. flag was burned in Chile. But there was none of that in Guatemala, where the U.S. role was understood and deeply appreciated. As the overthrown regime's victims were dug out of their graves and the luckier survivors emerged from their cells Guatemalans raised grateful cheers for the U.S. and for Ambassador Peurifoy...
...revolution-torn years that followed, 18 dictators ruled Guatemala, beginning with the swineherd Rafael Carrera (1839-65) and reaching a savage climax under the megalomaniac General Jorge Ubico, who took power in 1931, held the Indians' wages as low as 3? a day, and was overthrown and exiled in 1944. Jacobo Arbenz is the country's second elected President since then...
...quarter of one per cent of the teaching staff involved in investigations. In general, the Corporation has handled the investigation problem well. It has recognized that the teachers implicated are neither dangerous spies nor maligned heroes, and remembered that certain of the University's principles cannot be lightly overthrown. Yet, it has left the door open for more severe action if ever circumstances warrant...
Kekkonen's cabinet was overthrown earlier this month when he tried to force through a badly needed austerity program...
...closing scenes, grim as any in recent fiction, Marius babbles like a seagoing Lear ("Clear away aft ... let go for'ard") and mistakes his mother for his favorite brothel companion. Unmoved, smugly vengeful, she gloats: "God has drawn down the blind. That is only just ... He is overthrown and that is just...