Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paris in 1851 in a futile defense of the Second Republic against the incoming imperial regime of Louis Napoleon. Lagaillarde's principal resemblance to him is a common taste for barricades, but his great grandfather died trying to maintain the constituted authority of the state, not to overthrow...
Wahl pointed out that DeGaulle will probably wait to see how long the insurgents can hold out. What the rebels want, Wahl said, is not so much an overthrow of the Republic, "although some wouldn't mind." Instead, they seek a change in the Gaullist policy towards self-determination. If DeGaulle holds out long enough, however, the rebels will undoubtedly "give up the ghost," Wahl commented...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, associate professor of Government, agreed with Wahl about the transient nature of the insurrection. "Could 2,000 people throwing up barricades in New York overthrow the President?" he asked. DeGaulle has two choices, Hoffmann said. He can either shoot into the rebels or "starve them out." The latter action would create less bad feeling among those colonials not participating in the fighting...
...took Kishi only five years to get to his goal as Prime Minister. He first helped organize a new Democratic Party made up of a dissident segment of Yoshida's Liberals and a group of "progressives." But he was able to overthrow Yoshida only by entering into an alliance with the Socialists-even though his ultimate aim was to create an anti-Socialist force. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, who succeeded Yoshida, had suffered a stroke, and hung on for two trembling years before resigning. He was followed by Tanzan Ishibashi, who appointed Kishi his Foreign Minister and then fell...