Word: subverter
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...Nasser's current ambitions. The Shah's chief internal worry is the presence of 1,000,000 Kurds. This ancient group (whose great ancestor was Saladin) spread across northern Iran, northern Iraq, eastern Turkey, as well as the Soviet Caucasus. Russians employ their own Kurds to subvert the others...
...Warned the man who had kicked off the crisis by subverting the friendly government of Iraq and killing its leaders, the man behind the attempt to subvert Lebanon and Jordan-the United Arab Republic's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser-that he would face "grave consequences" if he interfered with the U.S. forces in Lebanon...
...beyond his balcony, a soldier whose victories are made from military defeats, a victor who has never won a war or even a battle. By marshaling the emotions of the Arab masses, articulating their angriest aspirations, stirring their most vituperative violence by his press and radio, and plotting to subvert rulers everywhere, Nasser had achieved his pinnacle. This vigorous and magnetic figure, who wears Western-style sports clothes but kneels toward Mecca with the strictest mullah, had burst into history at precisely the moment when the impact of the modern West unsettled the ancient Islamic ethos of the East. With...
...case was moderate: peace, unity, neutrality and cooperation with all nations, including Communist China and the neighboring Viet Minh. Only a few pessimists feared that by the general election of 1960 the Pathet Lao-which renamed itself the Neo Lao Hak Xat or Patriotic Front-might successfully subvert the charming little country, into which the U.S. was annually pouring some $43 million in aid. The first surprise came when Soupha-nouvong captured 21 of the National Assembly's 59 seats last month (TIME. May 19). Last week the affable prince, 46, already Minister of Planning, Reconstruction and Urbanization...
Almost every young writer today is more or less obsessed with demonstrating the inadequacy of the categories through which we see things. But whereas Sommer exercises his ingenuity to subvert the reality principle, the others rip aside the workaday facade of sanity with even less regard for the reader's preconceptions than a genuine madman. They destroy the grammatical and conceptual continuities on which we base our hackneyed understanding without offering anything on which to hang a new vision of things, and the result is often mere anarchy...