Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speakers there was to be Andreas Papandreou, 49, the Harvard-educated son of old George, who was released from a junta prison last December and has gone into exile to organize a resistance movement. Though the protest movements among the Greek communities abroad are indeed unlikely to overthrow the junta, they nevertheless succeed in discouraging tourists to Greece and businessmen from investing there. In the long run, the ex-colonels may find those measures more difficult to deal with than with an outright armed uprising...
...this commitment should be exercised. Christian radicals-such as the young firebrands who dominated the National Council of Churches' Conference on Church and Society in Detroit last fall-argue that the true follower of Jesus is the revolutionary, siding with forces and events that seek to overthrow established disorder. On the other hand, Protestant Theologian Hans-Joachim Margull of Hamburg University points out that it is not always so easy to identify the secular causes that Christians have a clear moral duty to support...
Bugged Flowerpots. Mao has not, of course, given up his campaign to overthrow President Liu Shao-chi, the "pro-Moscow revisionist" who remains his most powerful foe. In the Kwangsi region last week, a Maoist tabloid accused one party loyalist of "bugging" flowerpots and sofas in Mao's headquarters "to procure information for China's Khrushchev"-Liu. In Peking, police forced the President's daughter to give public testimony against her father, then arrested her because her criticism was "insufficient...
Test results, which Shapiro regards as only preliminary, could be inaccurate by as much as 20%, and still leave some room for doubt about relativity. But refinements in the radar technique could soon reduce the uncertainty to less than 1%, he says, and further confirm or definitely overthrow Einstein's general relativity...
Most Americans, including the policy makers, feel that if the United States successfully crushes the North Vietnamese attempt to overthrow the Saigon regime, revolutionaries all over the world will be decisively deterred. Such a victory will demonstrate once and for all that the United States has the power to carry out the Truman Doctrine and suppress uprisings led by "armed minorities." Once this action quells the revolutionary aspirations of any mischief-making extremists, the theory further predicts that countries of Asia and Latin America will forever be spared revolutions. The American-in-the-street is quick to understand that this...