Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airport in deference to Turkey's protests, called on him in his suite. Among other visitors: his sister and the sister of EOKA Leader Dighenis, who live together in Athens. Watching the scenes of adulation, observers conceded that Archbishop Makarios right now could overturn the Karamanlis government itself, if it crossed him. Lean, tanned and steely sure of himself, the archbishop showed no signs of such a wish, but last week all Greek politicians were uneasily trying to guess just what Makarios' plans were. Sighed one: "No one knows but the Almighty, and there...
...Journal. who was herself bullied by the mob at Clay, "the climate was unhealthy for two classes of citizens-newspaper people and Negroes." Before the guard arrived, newsmen trying to approach the Clay school were run out of town, and one managed to escape while a crowd tried to overturn...
...that both the student curfew and Desai's fast represented a dangerous retrogression in Indian politics. In Gandhi's day, soul force and fasting were directed against an alien government. Today India's mobs are using soul force (and physical force) in an attempt to overturn decisions of their own Parliament, and Indian leaders who fast to assert their power are countering with another perversion of Gandhi's legacy...
Writing in the highbrow French review Arts last week, Poet Jean Cocteau diagnosed the midsummer madness that gripped Paris: "A lightning-quick epidemic which forces different and antagonistic persons all to obey the same mysterious order, to submit themselves to new habits which overturn their old ways of life, up to the moment when a new order arrives and obliges them to turn their coat once more...
Colorado last week became the first state to overturn the widespread legal barrier against news photographers in the courtroom. After two weeks of hearings and demonstrations of new photographic equipment (TIME, Feb. 13), the state Supreme Court unanimously gave Colorado judges discretion to permit coverage not only by photographers but also by radio and TV. Special condition: no witness or juror "shall be photographed or have his testimony broadcast over his expressed objection...