Word: subverter
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Nasser's pledge was certainly not the best or even the most hopeful protection for the ships that sail the Suez. But in cold fact a treaty would be little better than a pledge if he intended to violate and subvert it. The true proof will come in his actions...
...Soviet rulers now attacking the basic causes of domestic discontent and foreign distrust, or is their purpose merely to allay this discontent and distrust?" The "downgrading of Stalin" and the policy of smiles have not relaxed the Soviet grasp on the satellites, or checked Soviet attempts to subvert free countries and regions, e.g., the Middle East...
...denunciation of the law of the survival of the fittest recently made by zoologists William L. Brown Jr. and Edward C. Wilson is indeed disturbing. Claiming that jungle ants can abide each other after all, the zoologists are seeking to subvert a time-tested law of the universe. If there is any basis in their theory of "character displacement," it will mean that all existing philosphies will have to be rethought. Everyone knows that science determines the nature of the prevalent world view. In the eighteenth century Newton forced Alexander Pope to write in rhyming couplets, and in the nineteenth...
...faculty speakers were obtained after Republican Senator Styles Bridges (N.H.) refused to appear before the Forum. His cancellation provoked charges by Forum members that John R. Thomson '56, president of the Young Republican Club, which has not joined the Forum, had interfered and tried to subvert the group...
...Student Council last night defeated a petition by William C. Brady '57 asking for administrative action against students who subvert the activities of undergraduate organizations. In effect, this action meant dismissing alleged subversion charges against John R. Thomson '57, HYRC president...