Word: subverter
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Banner Battle. To subvert any strictures on new arms shipments, the Communists have ordered that weapons and munitions plants hidden in the jungles of Cambodia and Laos be smuggled piecemeal into South Viet Nam. (For much the same reason, tons of equipment on U.S. bases have been formally donated to the South Vietnamese, then "loaned" back...
Benjamin Franklin a spy? The very idea seems ludicrous; one might as well posit that George Washington abandoned Long Island in a deliberate attempt to subvert the American Revolution. Yet in his new book, Code Number 72/Ben Franklin: Patriot or Spy?, Historian Cecil B. Currey raises the possibility that Franklin may not have been the wholly radiant patriot sanctified in school textbooks. Basing his case on what he describes as "previously unused papers of the British Secret Service," the author concludes that in the delicate negotiatory period of 1776-1785, when Franklin was ambassador to France, the supreme diplomat...
...chairman, will probably not make any substantive comments on the Review Committee's recommendations. Rather, Guinier will most likely contend that the entire review procedure is invalid and that the recently-released report is illegitimate. Guinier will also state that the Administration has made major efforts to subvert the development of his department...
...boxed into news stories and the stories had been read loudly over the telephone to the newsrooms back home. The reporters headed in various directions: some to get drunk; some to hear the President tell an evening rally of suburban Republicans in Nassau County how he was planning to subvert the Constitution in the coming week...
...Election of the President. Now TIME has learned that information in the Justice Department's files establishes a direct link between the White House and a Los Angeles attorney named Donald H. Segretti, who was paid more than $35,000 from the C.R.P.'s funds to subvert and disrupt Democratic candidates' campaigns this election year...