Word: overthrown
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Lola had given me the names of three prisoners with whom to talk, and a guard brought them to me. One, a 24-year-old student leader, had been in jail since February 1947, because of activities against the Morinigo government before it was overthrown. The other two, both of them young teachers, had been arrested after handing out anti-Morinigo leaflets and painting propaganda slogans on Asunción walls. They have never stood trial, have never been told how long their jail terms will...
Winner Browning had been elected governor (with Crump backing) in 1936, was overthrown two years later-when Boss Crump found him too "independent." He had piled up an impressive record in World War II and he campaigned aggressively. At week's end Browning's lead was more than 54,000 votes...
...novelist, Mrs. Fischer set out to study human lives during a period when not merely was an old order overthrown but several more were manufactured and destroyed. If she could have created the outer atmospheres and inner climates through which her characters are supposed to have lived, The Nazarovs would be a novel of great tragic force. But the job calls for more than the style of a competent linguist and the memory of a good reporter. What will impress the reader is not so much the novel that is there as the suggestion of the novel that might have...
Thus began the last hour of Yoshiko's strange life. She was born, the Princess Chin Pi-hui (Radiant Jade) of the Manchu dynasty, overthrown in 1911 by China's Sun Yatsen. She had been adopted by a member of Japan's powerful Black Dragon society, renamed Yoshiko (Beautiful One), reared man-fashion in the warrior code of Nippon. As a girl she dedicated herself to the overthrow of the Chinese Republic and the restoration of her house. She became a Japanese spy, masquerading as a taxi-dancer, a Chinese soldier, even as a Korean prostitute (Chinese...
...popular notion of an influential Communist Party in China. "There are scattered Communist agitators and conspirators here and there," he said, "and in the North there are Communist armies." But he claimed the leaders of these armies are like the old war-lords whom the National Government has overthrown...