Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this point a more cautious man might have learned to seal his lips. But finally a fellow radical, notorious, among other things, for living openly "in sin," agreed to roll the presses. Common Sense was born, with its great news that Americans had it in their power to overthrow the "crowned ruffians," the "royal brute," and "begin the world over again...
...union under the most trying conditions. A potentially fractious match to begin with -- he a formidable, eloquent, revolutionary lawyer; she a fiery, militant social worker 16 years his junior -- the Mandelas have survived 27 years of separation dictated by Pretoria's imprisonment of Nelson for sabotage and conspiracy to overthrow the government by force...
...event, George Bush has made the humanitarian task more difficult by cloaking the U.S. mission in self-defeating rhetoric. Stung by those who say he ended the gulf war too soon (which is arguable) and that he moved to aid the hapless Kurds too late after inciting them to overthrow Saddam (which isn't), the President is now bothered about the prospect of U.S. troops getting "bogged down" in a "further military" involvement, a "permanent presence" -- a "quagmire...
When Bush wanted to free a country from external invasion, liberals criticized Bush for interfering with Middle East politics. Now they want him to help overthrow the government of one of the major countries in the region...
Iraqi opposition leaders say the Saudis are working on a secret deal to help overthrow Saddam Hussein. Makeshift camps have been set up near Saudi and Kuwaiti border towns for thousands of Shi'ite refugees. While the world's attention is focused on the tragedy of the Kurds, Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah has agreed in principle to let anti-Saddam Iraqis, mostly Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, set up training sites as a base for infiltrating Iraq. The Saudis are "much more committed to overthrowing Saddam Hussein than the allies are," says Muwafaq al-Rubai...