Word: subverter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...didn't vote for Nixon, but we've got to support him now." Bob Steffenauer, 46, owns a restaurant in Pleasanton, Calif., and recently welcomed his son back from Viet Nam. He counts himself a Kennedy Democrat but says that some protest leaders "want to subvert Government policy and sink this country. I know Nixon is right in what he's doing." The antiwar protesters are, of course, just as convinced that Nixon is wrong. In the middle are perhaps most Americans?the true silent majority ?who are simply on the side...
...without charge of probable traitors, or to de-emphasize the Ulster Auxiliary Police. These auxiliary policemen, known as "B-Specials," are, like the regular Royal Ulster Constabulary, armed. Furthermore, the B-Specials exclude Catholics and their official purpose is to help the regular police beat back those who would subvert the state...
...regime's security forces have cracked down hard on the underground. Thirty-one suspected royalists, ranging from general to captain, are in prison on charges of trying to subvert the army. More than 100 Patriotic Fronters and other Communists received long jail terms. Sometimes the inexperience of the resistance workers betrays them. Police are waiting to interview a young Athens professor who is recovering from injuries caused last month by the explosion of a bomb that he was assembling. In his cellar, the police found twelve plastiques. The 13th was the unlucky...
...Bill "Crazylegs" Liller, the House staff had underhandedly attempted to subvert the seniors by bringing countless cases of beer and then discreetly refraining from indulging themselves. This insidious plot was discovered in the 6th inning. When the seniors found themselves behind by a score of 49-3. All would have been lost had it not been for the bases-loaded homer by senior pitcher Jan Halverson that triggered the 39-run 9th inning rally...
...Francisco State College was still reeling under their attacks as the old year closed. Despite the Administration's halting steps toward peace, massive antiwar demonstrations still took place in parks and arenas, men still burned their draft cards, priests and pedagogues still faced trial for attempting to subvert the Selective Service process...