Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they are outnumbered 251 to 48 by Adenauer's Christian Democrats. Instead they organized a revolt in the provincial legislature of North Rhine-Westphalia, which contains the rich Ruhr. Free Democrats made a deal with the opposition Social Democrats, with whom they otherwise had nothing in common, to overthrow able Christian Democrat Karl Arnold, the Minister Pres ident (governor) of North Rhine-Westphalia. They had nothing but admiration for Arnold and said so; they were simply out to get at Konrad Adenauer in Bonn. By a vote of 102-96, they succeeded and elected a Socialist the new Minis...
...Groups of blacks petitioned Anglican authorities to have the transfer rescinded. Huddleston's withdrawal, said Anglican Bishop Richard Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg, was one of the heaviest blows yet suffered by South Africa's nonwhites. Said the London Daily Mirror: "It is as if Gideon, about to overthrow the altars of Baal, had suddenly been withdrawn to grow watermelons...
Aldrich said yesterday he would hear the defense case before ruling on the defense motion, presented Monday, to dismiss the entire indictment. The defense case, which will now concentrate on an effort to overthrow the remaining counts will therefore begin in the Federal Building at 10 a.m. today and proceed throughout...
Aldrich did not directly discuss in his opinion the issue of the subcommittee's authority to investigate the general area of subversion. The defense may ask him to consider the problem in its effort to overthrow the last two counts...
Faure was not deceived. Shaking his fist at the Gaullists, he accused them of trying to overthrow him at all costs. "Your game is crystal-clear. You want to prevent me from applying my Moroccan policy endorsed last Sunday," he cried. Privately, the Gaullists admitted the truth of the charge. At last Faure wearily posed the Algerian program as a vote of confidence in himself, and set the vote for early this week. Quipped a left-wing Deputy: "There is a pleasant graveyard smell here...