Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young Kawamura enlisted in the army of the Great Mikado, Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who proceeded to overthrow the Shogunate (1868) and restored to the present reigning house the supreme power, which it has theoretically held for 122 generations?since the dawn of Japanese history...
...Indianapolis home Mr. Wilson said: "I had no more to do with the overthrow of Madero than Woodrow Wilson, and of course he had nothing to do with it. This was purely a manufactured charge made by a newspaper correspondent. In response to that charge I instituted suit against Norman Hapgood (then editor of Harper's Weekly), and among other things obtained a confession of judgment...
...Where, last week, did Whites overthrow Reds? (See FOREIGN AFFAIRS...
...once a favorite of the Emperor Nicholas and went over to the Reds only when his army was disintegrating about him because of bolshevist propaganda. One of his sons died in the Red Army and another in the White Army which attempted to overthrow the Soviet regime. At the time of his death he was drawing a pension of $150 (about 29 chervonetz) a month from the Soviets...
...official dispatches from Russia, which to him sealed the future fate of Germany. He dwells with bitterness on this final triumph of what he considers the machinations of the English diplomatic corps. He also foresees with sadness the years of misery and war, and the final overthrow of Germany. That scarcely sounds to me like the language of a man who has just reached the long awaited hour of glory and conquest...