Word: subverter
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...acts to get to that end. This involves another ball-gazing session (Mr. Edwards is as ingenious as he is indulgent of authors' whims) and a fair amount of comedy in the second act to gloss over its basic similarity to the first. When, despite everyone's attempts to subvert its ends, Fate proves too wily a customer for mortals, the final curtain rings down on what has been an enjoyable, if not particularly exhilarating, evening. Although the subject is obviously fascinating, it has been handled with skill and craftsmanship rather than real imagination...
Charge Three is an issue because it accuses the Senator of being more than a boor; it shows that he would subvert constitutional guarantees. To manhandle generals and senators is one thing; to manhandle the law is quite another. McCarthy claimed that federal employees are duty bound to give him information, "even though some little bureaucrat has stamped it 'secret' to protect himself." Either he had a right to make such a claim on the prerogatives of the executive, or he didn't. The Watkins Committee should have made this clear one way or the other...
...Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, replied: "The decision . . . will make a healthy impression in other countries .. ." Best answer to Representative Bentley's alarms (which found little echo in the U.S.) was the State Department's statement that "this small group" was not going to subvert America, while a look at U.S. life might actually inspire them to take a stiffer stand against "ruthless pressure" from Communism at home...
...were a few significant doubts. Rangoon's independent Nation argued that a non-aggression pact might have real meaning if it implied Red China's "cessation of support for the Burmese Communist Party, which is an illegal organization; cessation of the campaign now being carried on to subvert the loyalty of the peoples of border areas; cessation of all propaganda tending to undermine democratic processes in this country; and cessation of the attempt on all fronts to build up in this country a fifth column loyal to People's China...
...found himself headed into another. This time the cause of the ruckus was a teacher's manual about UNESCO that Stoddard had hoped to use in the schools. Some citizens, how ever, led by Hearst's Herald & Express, had other ideas. UNESCO, the critics charged, tended to subvert nationalism in favor of one world, and this in turn was closely akin to Communist international ism. The local American Legion joined the attack, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars passed a resolution condemning "this planned corruption of the American children's minds." Eventually, the anti-UNESCO chorus grew...