Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble started when students launched a one-hour strike against the announced returns of last December's congressional election, in which Ydigoras handily improved his majority. As is his habit, Ydigoras called the whole shooting match a "Castro-Communist" plot. No doubt the Communists would like to overthrow the man who let Guatemala be used as a base for last year's Cuban invasion. But the Reds are by no means the only ones fed up with Ydigoras. Because of organized graft that flourishes like a fungus, the majority of Guatemala's business and professional community...
...statement reported by the official party newspaper Nepszabadsag. "They live peacefully and work honestly. What shall we do? Shall we live with them on a war footing? Why should we? They don't rise against us. and we only want to combat those who try to overthrow the people's power...
Later, he added that the Committee is concerned about "behavior." "It's decidedly rude," Myerson explained "to yell out 'overthrow your Red masters' when a group of Russians leave a train. As in the past it is also liable to be injurious to one's person...
...been expressed by eminent men (T. E. Lawrence, Yeats, Graves) since his undergraduate days at Oxford, whence he was graduated with minimal honors. A High Wind in Jamaica was far more than just another story of children; it was a philosophical fantasy with a cutting edge, seeking to overthrow long-held sentimental notions of childhood, arguing that in reality children are fearful, secret, ritualistic, and innocent only in the sense that savages are innocent...
Convicted in 1949 under the terms of the Smith Act for conspiring to overthrow the government by violent means, Hall jumped ball and fled to Mexico. He was deported in 1951 and later served five years in jail for the Smith Act violation and for contempt of court...