Word: subverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come to our attention that an unfriendly group has deliberately attempted to subvert this Doctrine. Low-altitude photographs taken over Massachusetts Avenue only last Wednesday furnish firm, clear, and undeniable evidence that on the thirty-first of October agents of the Harvard Square merchants strung up several strands of offensive colored lights along the Avenue between the Square and the Harvard...
...completed his 25th term on the U.S. Supreme Court in the same way that he began his court career-in the center of a storm. To his admirers, Black is a judicial hero, forever fighting on behalf of individual liberties. To his critics, he is an archvillain seeking to subvert national institutions. As time passes, it is apparent that the extremists on both sides have forgotten many of the facts about what and who Hugo Black really...
Citing chapter and verse, Schwarz reviews the history of Communist efforts to subvert American society and institutions, to capture the mind of U.S. students ("That is always the first step"), to seize control of labor unions, to set up front groups to enlist the unwary to their causes. Such efforts, in fact, achieved their greatest successes in the 19305 and in the years during and immediately following World War II. But Schwarz, by slurring over dates and by drawing present-tense conclusions from past-tense examples, gives them dramatic currency, leaving the impression that the threat of internal subversion...
...from the Inquisition to Newman, Jesuits in 1789 founded the first U.S. Catholic university, Washington's Georgetown. Georgetown raised its head in an overwhelmingly (99%) and belligerently Protestant new country. A pamphleteer of the time warned of the "calm, shrewd, steady, systematic movement of the Jesuit order . . . to subvert the Reformation, and to crush the spirit of liberty...
...also before the house will be a report issued last week by the five-nation Organization of American States Inter-American Peace Committee. The committee accused Cuba of converting itself into a Red satellite, of attempting to subvert its neighbors, of violating human rights by executing and imprisoning political dissenters. It would be a hard report to ignore for those Latin American nations which want only a mild reproof for Cuba and no sanctions...