Word: subverter
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...Board of Overseers. Because the Board of Overseers, intimately informed of the truth about the University faculties, trusted the University, and because the alumni, in turn, trusted their Board of Overseers, not even the most malicious and persistent propaganda of doubt and of suspicion was able to subvert them. No graduate of Harvard could better represent the Board of Overseers and the alumni for whom it stands the Charles Wyzanski, a distinguished lawyer, one of the foremost judges of his time and an American who still believes in the great conception of intellectual freedom on which this Republic was founded...
...said Dr. Blake, "is the plans and programs of the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . Certainly the Protestant churches have much more important things to do than to resist Roman Catholicism . . . But surely Protestant leaders do have the responsibility to cast the spotlight upon all Roman Catholic hierarchy efforts to subvert American freedom...
...football players leave, before the game, the names of persons to whom they are giving complimentary. At gametime, those on the gate list pick up their tickets, while their names are checked off. This method cannot eliminate scalping completely; no system can if players and managers are determined to subvert it. But, coupled with the warnings sounded this year by the deans, a gate list could be an effective deterrent. In any event, players deserve complimentary tickets and this is the surest way to prevent these tickets from illegal change of hands...
...wrote while they were at the front sounds like a companion piece to Deutschland iiber Alles (beginning: "Surrounded by the power of the foe. arise, thou German land . . ."). Dibelius' essential objection to Naziism, like Niemoller's, was not that it was authoritarian, but that it tried to subvert the Christian church...
...Voice of America, and has resisted Congressional attempts to divest it of this authority. Therefore, it cannot escape blame for the appalling conspiracy which Senate investigators uncovered in the Voice's New York headquarters. For despite the November election, the evidence shows that Communist sympathizers are still free to subvert American foreign policy to Russian interests. One example of such conniving was the recent use of a Communist-endorsed scriptwriter to compile propaganda material. Another was the continual use of the word democracy in Voice broadcasts; for in Russian terms democracy means pro-Soviet...