Word: shakeup
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...Duke might just as well write another piece called the Damascus Reel, for Syria, too, underwent a shakeup, quieter but no less significant. Behind the sudden shuffle of Middle Eastern leaders was a power struggle inside a strange new political force, the Baath (Renaissance) Party, which in little less than a year has turned from a shadowy, clandestine movement without popular support into a dynamic power challenging Gamal Abdel Nasser for leadership of the Arab world...
...often pummeling its victim into speechlessness, the throng would shout at the man for a few minutes, then, its business done, make an equally frantic rush back for the tents. Was it a circus or a riot? Not quite either. It was the Tokyo press corps covering a Cabinet shakeup...
...aghast toward America, not Europe. "We're not anti-American in this country, and we understand the breakaway of the American Revolution, but when the kid comes and belts the old girl across the backside it's a bit much," he says. "We are due for a shakeup. It's salutary and good for us. But it's hard too. It's like a successful son saying, 'Open the windows, mother-God, all that...
...departments-want with what-is-a-good-thing-to-have, an equation which is, coming from the CRIMSON, quite unexpected. And if the CRIMSON seriously believes that employing unoccupied tutors is the most serious obstacle to making senior tutorial a divisible course, then what is needed is an administrative shakeup, not a hurried acquiescence to the men who cared so little that they walked out of Tuesday's meeting...
...changes had to come before the Common Market debate reached a head in October, and many Conservatives have been clamoring for a shakeup in the top ranks of the Party," MacArthur said, "but no one expected the apparent haste of the move. MacMillan did not even exchange the traditional courtesy letters with Lloyd...