Word: overturning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...juggernaut. In Taylor's account, he is peculiarly passive.* "He did not seize power," writes Taylor. "He waited for it to be thrust upon him." Like other statesmen of his time, he was defending the national interest in a cleanly Machiavellian way. He simply wanted to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and restore Germany as a great power. Minimizing the fact that Hitler committed his plans for conquest to paper as early as 1925 in Mein Kampf, Taylor claims that the dictator did not really want war. His threats were "daydreaming" or "play-acting" to impress German generals...
...military man would be punished for actions committed under Trujillo. Presumably this was his asking price. The opposition U.C.N. could only resume its strike in the streets, hopeful that the rioting would not get out of hand. Looking on, the U.S. was concerned that too sudden an overturn of armed authority might open the gates to Castroism-but also hoped that the nation's long suppressed wish for democratic freedom would be recognized. It was prodding both sides to settle...
Student, faculty, and administrators at Brown University have joined in an effort to overturn a ruling by the Rhode Island Attorney General prohibiting the sale of Henry Miller's novel, Tropic of Cancer...
...reinforce his moderates and keep Singapore out of the hands of the leftists, Lee has long sought to merge Singapore with stable Malaya. Until recently, Abdul Rahman has been wary, since the admission of Singapore's 1,250,000 Chinese (it has only 230,000 Malays) would overturn the present Malay majority within the federation. Abdul Rahman's long-range solution is to widen the federation to include the British-run territories of Sarawak, Brunei and North Borneo, whose predominantly non-Chinese populations would offset Singapore's Chinese, many of whom are openly proCommunist...
...Bolivia, Castro agents working out of the Cuban embassy hatched a plot with local Communists to overturn the government of Reformer-President Victor Paz Estenssoro with a "hunger march" on the capital by striking leftist tin miners. Forewarned, the Bolivian government declared a state of siege, rounded up the chief conspirators and called out a well-armed militia of nonstriking workers to block all roads into the capital. The march fizzled...