Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Greeks moved deep into the Persian Empire (see map) when Cyros, the Persian governor of Asia Minor, hired 12,900 of them to help overthrow his brother. King Artaxerxes. They clashed with the Persian forces at Cunaxa, near ancient Babylon. After Cyros was killed by a javelin, his native troops fled the field, leaving the Greeks surrounded. To make matters worse, the Persians slew the Greek commanders by treachery...
...skill to keep them from stoning him to death because the troops suspected he planned to use them to found a city instead of taking them home. The glorious march up country ends on this pitiful note of bickering and betrayal. Scarcely half the Greeks who had started to overthrow Persia survived, and they were all much poorer than when they began. Only the world was richer by Xenophon's Anabasis...
...European Common Market, won an international reputation as the author of the "green pool" plan, which he hoped would do for agriculture what the Schuman Plan (also sponsored by an Alsatian) had done for the European coal and steel industry. Though his party played a prominent part in the overthrow of Premier Mendes-France who tried to ease French policy in North Africa, Pflimlin himself is regarded by the right as much too liberal, is called "the Mendes-France who goes to Mass." He was one of a group of leading Catholics to protest against French atrocities in Algeria...
Outside, the handful of escort police hung back. Brutally manhandled by vengeful mobs after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, they seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...
...antisubversion Smith Act should be expanded to make a criminal offense of the mere teaching of advocacy of violent overthrow of the U.S. This provision, which would doubtless face stern constitutional testing as to whether it violated the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, is an attempt to answer the Supreme Court for reversing the Smith Act convictions of 14 California Communists. The court last year held that the Smith Act did not cover the "abstract doctrine" of violent overthrow, but only the "teaching and advocacy of action in language reasonably and ordinarily calculated to incite persons to such...