Word: subverter
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...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...
...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...