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Word: overthrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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After listening to all this, the House Committee charged him with conspiracy to overthrow the Government, contempt of Congress, perjury, income-tax evasion and passport falsification. It ordered him sent back to Ellis Island and asked the Justice Department to act in a hurry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: The Man from Moscow | 2/17/1947 | See Source »

...this hate-Russia, hate-Communism talk is not only dangerous but is futile. Those who breed such hate are the reactionary forces of this, the most powerful country in the world. The only fruition of such a hate would be the overthrow of Communism in Russia. This could only be accomplished by an internal revolution, which I feel is impossible, or by an external, atomic war, which I fear is not only possible, but probable unless the inspirers of hate-Russia, hate-Communism have a change of heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

...which is handled not at all. Readers of "Izvestia" now stand convinced that America has been indicted of crimes it ignores with true capitalistic brutality and neglects to remedy in the manner of courtiers at old St. Petersburg. Logically, the Russians must conclude that the only salvation lies in overthrow al and the consignment of white southerners to American Siberias. It is not Mr. Ehrenburg's treatment of the Negro that is amiss, but his branding of the southerner, and thus, in the manner of a good dialectician, the American government, that is so inaccurate and destructive to mutual understanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Shelf | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

...expected to win last May's referendum and make heavy gains in the succeeding elections. Before taking over key ministries in the Government, they wanted to strip De Gaulle of his most dangerous lieutenant and thereby prevent the possibility of a Gaullist coup d'état to overthrow a Communist-dominated Government. Dewavrin's imprisonment was the Communist price for maintaining shaky tripartite unity in President Félix Gouin's Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: L'Affaire Passy | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Paris is the drama-the Great Adventure of the Russian Revolution-which really molded his political character and now determines his every action on the international stage. Molotov threw in his lot with a little group who believed that by brains and ruthlessness and unity they could overthrow a society that other European revolutionaries watched with patient hope for the worst, but no determined plan of attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Old Rock Bottom | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

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