Word: subverter
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...lawyer who is working on the case without pay, has asked for subpoenas requiring the principals named in the case to submit to questioning under oath this week. The aim is to preoccupy the Republicans in court during the fall and to keep the case in public view to subvert the seemingly unstoppable G.O.P. campaign. The Democrats have been moving methodically. As O'Brien puts it: "This is an unprecedented case of political espionage. We have been very, very careful in every step we've made...
...succeeded to a certain extent in telling some black people that what we have to do is concentrate on what's happening in our own back yard. A big proponent of this approach is Jesse Jackson, and some of the other so-called "national" leaders. They are trying to subvert the work done by people like Malcolm X, who raised our consciousness, who expanded our political interest, and who for the first time raised the struggle of black people in this country to an international struggle. And people outside began to look at us in a different light. They began...
...doesn't hesitate to infiltrate groups like the Black Panthers and Students for a Democratic Society to subvert them," Davis said. "There's no reason that radical Oberlin students can't join the CIA to try to change its course...
Whether or not he can do this is another matter. Financial burdens, another student upheaval, or pressure from outside the University could easily subvert his intentions. He could end up five years from now repeating the sentiment Archibald Cox voiced recently that "you get to feel like a mother hen about this place after so many mornings waling brought the Yard at three o'clock, and you just want to pay back some of the debt...
...wording will be broadly questioned, but I don't think anyone is out to subvert the report," Bailyn said. "There are many implications to be tought out." He said there had been "a lot of talk" among Faculty members, but no kind of lobbying or organizational splitting-"there's no ideological division here...