Word: unseat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's squash team's sweep of the Tufts top ten yesterday fueled its hopes that this year's squad may be able to unseat Princeton in the Ivy League championship...
...decision I wasn't getting the fullest out of the quote. Harvard experience."--insert Boyum. and you have largely the same group that a year ago dropped only one dual match (Princeton) and captured the intercollegiate six-man championship. Undeniably, the squad is talented and a potential favorite to unseat Princeton and regain the nine-man title it gave up last year...
...running against another Democrat, Harris County Sheriff Jack Heard, on a platform of sound fiscal management. In Miami, where an influx of Caribbean refugees and a burgeoning drug trade have caused a paroxysm of violent crime, Cuban-born Challenger Manolo Reboso, 46, is counting on heavy Cuban support to unseat four-term Incumbent Maurice Ferre. Reboso is an outspoken admirer of the late Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza and was a leader of Democrats supporting Reagan. Perhaps the most direct, if quixotic, challenge to Reagan Administration policies came in a nonbinding referendum in Boston. Proposed was an increase in "quality education...
...guest who was almost a nogo: Sir Dawda K. Jawara, President of Gambia, who lingered a day in England after being regretfully informed by the Foreign Office that he had been deposed in a coup - but who at week's end returned to Africa to try to unseat the rebels...
...sporadically pursued a much less successful political career. A longtime supporter of Richard Nixon, he was appointed Postmaster General in 1969 and used his business background to help convert the leviathan U.S. mail service into a nonpolitical, Government-owned corporation. In 1972 he made a quixotic attempt to unseat Alabama Senator John J. Sparkman, but garnered only 33% of the vote. Last year he was national campaign chairman for John Connally's aborted presidential...