Word: unseat
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...strong contender for the couch. Brother Hussein is amiable and popular, but used to be jailed now & then by his father for drinking bouts, is now in retirement on a farm. The eighth son, Ibrahim, fled from Yemen to British Aden a year ago after an unsuccessful attempt to unseat his father. He gave up the title Sword of Islam, called himself Saif el Hag (Sword of Truth...
...similar situation mesmerized voters during the race for nine seats on Cambridge's City Council. Unable to unseat the proponents of municipal government by an appointed city manager on the basis of their record, a few frustrated politicians assailed the C.C.A. candidates as upper class political dictators. The fact that managerial government cut cut the city debt by $10,000,000 in six years became a minor issue in the minds of the electorate. When Harvard voters were thought to favor Plan E. two politicians fought their campaign on a Town and Gown angle. With voters simmering over the possibility...
...after that his development can be called almost to the last attitude. Down the corridor he trails, stumbling here and there over an academic problem, an idea on the loose, or a dissident personality. The College, with all its weapons, faces an enormous problem before it can hope to unseat the hard-riding stereotypes of its raw material...
...also couldn't help but know, as does everyone at Ann Arbor, that this Saturday is the crucial one for Bob Chappuis and his fellow specialists on Michigan's team. They face Illinois, unbeaten until last week, and anxious to unseat a championship-bound Michigan as they...
General Tu studied his father's History well. In 1945, he put ancient Chinese tactics to good use to unseat (on the Generalissimo's orders) the old warlord of Yunnan Province, Lung Yun. Tu told Warlord Lung that Nationalist troops would merely be holding maneuvers in Yunnan's capital. Then he surrounded Lung's troops and disarmed them. When Lung was moved to a face-saving position as chief of the National Military Council in Chungking, he demanded punishment for upstart General Tu. The Generalissimo obligingly "banished" Tu to the Northeast China Command to direct...