Word: overthrown
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...American conviction that British talk of post-war cooperation means that Americans are to underwrite a British old regime which is patently obsolete is not the least serious of the barriers to be overthrown. The British Empire of the past with its mixture of paternalism and repression has plainly had its day. What, Americans ask, do we intend...
...totalitarian system which roused, armed and incited our enemies against us, as well as the systematic coalition of private interests which in France has acted in opposition to national interests, must once & for all be overthrown...
...Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some common U.S. illusions: 1) that Mexican Presidential terms usually end with assassination (there are seven ex-Presidents living in Mexico today); 2) that all Mexican Governments are overthrown by violence (none has been overthrown since...
...that many of the problems seem insoluble today; he does not admit they will always be insoluble. Before him he has the example of Mr. Hull, who worked with single mind and infinite patience for 25 years to get his reciprocal-trade principle accepted by the world, saw it overthrown five years later by Adolf Hitler, yet has never for a moment thought of quitting...
...pushed the frontiers of Aegean history back 2,000 years; in Oxford, England. At Knossos he unearthed the labyrinth made famous by Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur; reconstructed the Palace of Minos complete with murals, plumbing and sunken bathtubs; found evidence that the 2,000-year-old kingdom was overthrown suddenly by seaborne invaders who took the city by surprise and burned the palace...