Word: overthrown
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...monstrous thing that means hunger and cold and unemployment and destitution and disorganization of the social fabric; a threat to democratic government itself, and it is proper for me to say at this point that if actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the Government will be overthrown, and the Government that would take its place would be a dictatorship and that the first thing the dictatorship would do would be to destroy the labor unions...
...mild-voiced Goldsborough called that strike "an evil, demoniac, monstrous thing." He said it meant "hunger and cold, and unemployed and democratic government itself, and "If actions of this kind can be successfully persisted in, the government will be overthrown, and the government that would take its place would be a dictatorship...
...Tennessee will illustrate to New England, by its hell-for-leather manner of flay, the dry rot and decay which have overthrown the Harvard and Dartmouths and Browns here in a corner of the country where college football players are strict amateurs and play like strict amateurs." November...
Being populated for the most part by people who have long since overthrown the Army way of thinking, comparisons with the khaki way of life stop short at the exterior of the one-time hospital wards. The cavernous buildings have been segmented crosswise into five or six sections apiece, each unit varying from one to three bedrooms--the number of bedrooms determining the cost. Each home has, besides, a living room, a kitchen a bathroom, plenty of closet space, and two radiators in every room. Until you figure that the rooms are, on the average, somewhat smaller than the college...
...potential threat of militant, strong-arm Soviet imperialism worries Stowe surprisingly little; he is far more worried about what the democracies should do to put their own house in order. A war to "stamp out Communism," he feels, would probably result in world dictatorship even were Stalin & Co. overthrown. He doubts that survivors of such a war-the remnants of Western civilization, the burgeoning Asiatic millions-would give democracy another chance to prove its devotion to the cause of peace...