Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ecuador's 135 years of independence, only 13 elected presidents have lasted out their four-year terms. Early last week Ecuadorians were at it again, overthrowing the military junta that had overthrown their last president. But it didn't stop there. By week's end they were threatening to overthrow the government that had overthrown the junta that had overthrown their last president...
...Life with Mother Superior, Mother Superior Rosalind Russell does none of these things. She wisely leaves such nonsense to lesser members of the faculty, while she herself wages a war of nerves with Hayley Mills and June Harding, a pair of cigar-smoking students who seem determined to overthrow dear old St. Francis Academy by force and violence...
...powerful Buddhist, Thich Tri Quang, accused Premier Ky of "indulging in a cult of personality," most of the Buddhist plaints and placards were aimed at Chief of State Thieu. Thieu is a Catholic, and it is political paramountcy over the Catholics that the bonzes want, rather than an outright overthrow of the government just...
...attributes the recent overthrow of the government in Nigeria to tribal jealousies and popular impatience with the nation's politicians. Parry contends that the Nigerians had become convinced that their leaders were concerned more with self-aggrandizement than with solving the country's problems...
...takes quite a pitchman and a lot of positive thinking to describe the recent Buddhist riots not as a threat of overthrow, but as a "test of Premier Ky's statesmanship;" or to view Ky's autocratic ousting of General Thi, as "the emergence of democratic leadership." Thi had to go, the Ambassador, asserted, "because he didn't represent the majority." The majority of the Vietnamese people? he was asked. "No, the majority of the military leaders...