Word: subverts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely crystallized as English must remain the same. The efforts of the language reformers to force doubtful or incorrect expressions into recognized good usage can have but one result--to subvert good usage itself...
Like a stern grey cat clawing feathers one by one from a gaudy canary Dictator Stalin of Russia has spent eleven months mercilessly divesting of his powers the once great Gregory Zinoviev, "spiritual son of Lenin," "bomb-boy of Bolshevism," arch-director of plots in every land to subvert world capitalism...
President (Premier) William T. Cosgrave declared before the Dail: "We have to deal with an organized conspiracy to subvert the Government, but the force behind the raids and the genius directing them will not be able to make a sustained attack on liberty, order and peace in the Irish Free State." He then introduced the Public Safety Bill, supplementing the Treason Act and conferring emergency powers upon the Government. By employing all the persuasion at his command he was able to get the bill through the Dail last week...
...super-government" was coined. The World editorial was entitled "A Noble Conspiracy" and commented on how "the very good people, not just the respectable ones, but the good people, the good women in small towns, raised a fund which was used openly, honestly and with the best intentions to subvert the authority of the Legislature of Pennsylvania. . . . According to this theory, any private citizen could buy just as much law enforcement as he thought desirable." It was pointed out that the right of legislatures to refuse money to executives had long been regarded as the cornerstone of political liberty...
...bill was drafted to empower the Government to pay these installments as they came due. The Finance Minister proposed to subvert 800,000,000 francs from the budget for this purpose and add 400,000,000 francs from the proceeds of the Morgan loan, which is still intact. Chamber and Senate agreed, but the latter insisted upon adding a clause which prohibited the Government from using the Morgan money for any purpose except repaying the Bank of France, and which stipulated that any residue after the payment to the Bank was to be applied to repaying the banking house...