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Word: overthrows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Second baseman Vince McGugan scored what proved to be the winning run in the third inning after reaching first on a fielders choice. With one out, McGugan stole second, continued to third on the catcher's overthrow, and then raced home when the centerfielder bobbled the ball...

Author: By Eric Pope, | Title: Crimson Nine Down B.U. As Brayton Wins Fourth | 4/19/1972 | See Source »

Another of the youths said that the national press praises Mobile. Gulf and Shell Oil Companies. "These companies are praised because they are helping to overthrow the terrorists," he said. "People in Portugal are encouraged to buy from them because of this...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Protesters at Harvard Club Blast Portugese in Angola | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

...Melvin Laird announced late last week that the bombing would not stop until North Vietnam began "serious" negotiations with the United States. The statements by Laird and Porter have thus placed Hanoi in the position of having to beg the United States to stop bombing North Vietnam--or to overthrow the Saigon regime and forcibly dislodge the U.S. military machine from all Indochina so that further bombing is impossible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Offensive In Vietnam | 4/11/1972 | See Source »

Nonetheless, the unmistakable objective of the current North Vietnamese drive is the overthrow of the Saigon regime. And if events in South Vietnam should soon reach a stage where Washington feels it must act decisively to save the regime, even at the expense of the Moscow summit, we must brace for the possibility of further American escalation in the war. There are several possibilities for what form this new escalation might take: sustained bombing of North Vietnam above the 20th Parallel, air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong, the destruction of North Vietnam's irrigation dikes, or the use of tactical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Offensive In Vietnam | 4/11/1972 | See Source »

...love prolix oratory-to extol pan-Arabism. Arab states, he insisted, do not need "Communism, fascism, foreign capitalism or liberalism." Instead, they are capable of forming a united force that could easily become the third great world power. One step toward this goal, Gaddafi said, would be to overthrow King Hussein of Jordan and King Hassan of Morocco, just as he and fellow officers 21 years ago toppled Libya's King Idris. Radio Cairo helpfully broadcast the speech all over the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIBYA: The Croesus of Crisis | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

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