Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this peaceful overturn was a newcomer to politics. He was adopted by the liberal wing of the Republican Party which believed that the tangible gains of the New Deal could be preserved while rejecting certain fundamentals of the New Deal's philosophy. Ike thought at first he would be "drafted" by the Republicans, but he quickly found that the processes of democracy include hard and necessary tests. He passed those in the dramatic weeks when the magic number was 604-the majority of Republican Convention delegates...
Woman's Intuition. In Somersworth, N.H., Mrs. Boardman Wright Jr. dozed off during a motor trip, dreamed that she was involved in a crash, escaped injury after she awoke with a start, grabbed the wheel from her husband, causing their car to overturn...
...fact that a riot can be dangerous and that the rioters may have to take the consequences of their participation. If we have permission to hold a rally in the Square, that is fine; but when some of us start disconnecting trolley wires, pounding on police cars, attempting to overturn cars, and blocking traffic, we must expect the Cambridge police to attempt to disperse us before more damage is done. But how can they disperse a riot? To tell everyone to go home, or to reason with a crowd of college boys out to raise hell is futile. Possibly...
...Most Regrettable." Then they twisted through the street traffic in search of foreigners' cars-particularly the olive-drab sedans of U.S. Army units-to punch out their windows, terrify their passengers and overturn or burn a dozen empty cars. Two U.S. sailors caught up in the frenzy were dumped into the Imperial moat while a dazed Japanese stood near by muttering, "Most regrettable; most regrettable...
...members out of 136. He held them spellbound, while the galleries cheered, and in the end he got a 90-0 vote of confidence. Afterwards, Opposition Leader Jamal Imami, who talked against Mossadegh but abstained from voting against him, was mobbed outside. The crowd tried to beat him up, overturn his car; police rescued him. As Mossadegh himself emerged, an old merchant named Haji Mohammed Ali Aymaktchi lay down near his car, announced that he was going to slit his own throat as a human sacrifice to the great Mossadegh. Haji was led away, protesting at the lack of patriotic...