Word: subverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...managed news still a hot one, he began his talk with the greeting "Fellow managing editors." In mock-somber tones and with almost professional timing, the President went on to describe the discovery of a serious new Soviet threat. Khrushchev sent his son-in-law Aleksei Adzhubei over to subvert the Vatican, the President noted, and there was talk that the touring Russian had left some Marxist bibles behind in caves around the Holy City. But Washington was on to the game, warned Kennedy. The U.S. even knew the secret Soviet code name for the operation...
...Plaine des Jarres, headquarters of both the neutralist and Communist Pathet Lao armies, the Reds have begun a campaign to infiltrate and subvert the forces of their onetime neutralist allies. Farther north, thousands of Red Chinese workers have crossed into Laos to build roads linking China's Yunnan province with Communist-held areas of Laos itself. Armed with new Red Chinese automatic weapons, the Pathet Lao is attacking neutralist villages on the supply lines between the Plaine des Jarres and Communist North Viet Nam to the east. Many neutralists have openly defected to the Reds, adding to Westerners...
...some scoundrel been fomenting a holy war in Turkey? Can the dastardly plot to do in the Greek Premier be foiled? Is the hated Boche all cranked up to subvert Mesopotamia? Yes, yes, and yes. The thing to do, as many a British reader from 15 to So knows, is call in Richard Hannay. At least that is what old Sir Walter Bullivant at the Foreign Office always did. and with the most heartening results for both the interests of Old England and the greater glory of a sandpiper-sized Scottish scrivener named John Buchan. A soldier, a respected historian...
...spread of Communism to other countries in the Caribbean." Said a Latin American Ambassador to the U.S.: "It is to be hoped that we all do not contemplate another Bay of Pigs type failure of purpose. We are all ready to go now, but tomorrow Castro may confuse or subvert some of the very governments that are the most eager to finish...
...serve the purpose of General Education surveys, putting them under the control of the departments would insure proper staffing and the maintenance of high enough intellectual standards--perennial problems in any general education program. But while this proposal might work well administratively, the final result would probably be to subvert the idea of general education...