Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peru was in a state of electoral grace. Its free election last week, itself a startling novelty, might prove the most significant overturn in Peru's violent electoral history. Far in the lead, with much of the vote unofficially tabulated, was Dr. Jose Luis Bustamante Rivero, candidate of the National Democratic Front. Snowed under was General Eloy G. Ureta, favored by the Government...
...strange tactics of political war, King's Liberal Party chose Grey North Riding, on the rocky shore of Lake Huron's Georgian Bay, as the place where newcomer McNaughton could best be elected. Promptly the pesky Tories saw another chance to overturn King's plans by beating his key Cabinet man, nominated a solid local citizen, popular Mayor Garfield Case. Their election issue: McNaughton's avowed opposition to conscription. Last week they were preparing to plaster the whole district with posters saying: "Do We or Don't We [want conscription]? Vote Yes. Vote Case...
...Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions. But they were pushed along the road to dictatorship by the fecklessness of the opposition...
...Hutchins is trying to overturn American education. Aren't you glad? [He also] is trying to revolutionize the modern world, and when a great big handsome president of a great big handsome university goes revolutionary, it is time to sit up and take notice. [He] is proposing a little island of socialism in a capitalistic country. ... A university, he says, is a 'consecrated community' [to] seek the salvation of men's minds. [Hutchins] wants to free professors from the pressure to pursue mink coats for their wives, or for somebody else's wives, and assure...
...Navy Bureau-type tank lighter was in trouble. She appeared to have a tendency to dive . . . was taking considerable water aboard. She stopped several times and members of the crew could be seen manning hand pumps. . . . Once when under way . . . it appeared that the lighter was going to overturn . . . the coxswain had left the pilot house and was steering the vessel from the rail" (obviously preparing for a quick getaway if she foundered...