Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entry. Every year some one of the seven entries in the three halls is notorious, as far as the dean's office is concerned. The grades of men in the entry are probably no lower than average, but students have a good time on football weekends and occasionally overturn a fire-extinguisher or engage in pinpoint bombing out of the window...
...Administration hoped that European recovery could be accomplished for less than $17 billion over a four-year period. The last request brought the total up to about $14½ billion-$2½ billion less than the original estimate, with success in sight. The President thought it a pity to overturn the whole applecart in the interests of misplaced economy. It was not economy and it would never be economy if the European recovery program was ruined just when the whole program was on the verge of success...
...great majority of the confirmed anti Communists, as far as Schmidt was able to determine, have no hope of an internal revolution that could overturn the present regime, and look to a general East West war as the best chance for bringing Czechoslovakia into the Western camp...
Dispatches from other sections made it clear that TV was continuing its methodical overturn of long-established U.S. manners, morals and institutions...
...Mike! As news of the police action spread, the remaining Cardenas cabbies raced downtown, began to stone and overturn Marfil Marrón cabs. By threats and cajolery, they persuaded the larger, more conservative Cab Drivers Syndicate to join them in a strike. By nightfall there was not a cab to be hailed in all Mexico City...