Word: subverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...create a viable Congolese state, and keep the Cold War out of the Congo, the UN had to assume responsibility for law and order and crush a Tshombe who refused to negotiate. Lord Home's government was thus both wrong and dishonest: its attempt to subvert a set of UN resolutions it hadn't the courage to veto is in itself an apt lesson in hypocrisy for the "reckless" anti-colonialists to ponder...
...fact, for purely literary reasons, the avant-garde seems self-consciously in search of a revolution. It is full (as Noble Savage itself notes) of "young men with fringe beards and triple goggles looking for something to subvert which hasn't already been overturned by the restless and discontented middle class...
While student leaders demonstrated and voted 5,132 to 3,293 in favor of athletics integration, Professor Goldstein circulated a resolution of his own. It denounced the dorm regulations as designed to "degrade the dignity of the individual, subvert the academic community and interfere with the educational process." The resolution was adopted by the faculty assembly, 308-34, then put in the mail for a vote of the full faculty. In the face of both student and faculty votes, the Regents insisted that the integrationist force on the campus was a mere "vocal minority...
...favoring rapid-growth sectors. The food problem, which would arise as soon as Common-wealth produce were no longer able to enter duty-free, might possibly be mitigated if the E.E.C. allowed Britain to maintain a set of preferential tariffs for Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. But such preferences subvert the very idea of a Common Market, and France in particular will be content with Britain's joining only if it joins unequivocally...
Preferring to stick to its own concept, the I.A.P.A. convention voted unanimously to condemn the "conspiracy directed by Cuba to subvert and lead to the seizure of the press of the Americas by the Communists.'' and asked the 21-nation Organization of American States "to adopt all corrective measures in its charter." The I.A.P.A. elected as its new president Andrew Heiskell, board chairman of Time...