Word: unseat
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...list is little cause for comfort. All the men indicted, save Public Safety Commissioner Frank Giles, are still in office, doing business as usual. Speaker Thompson has flatly refused to resign, saying it will prejudice his case in court. Efforts by the inept GOP minority in the House to unseat him have failed, and for the moment anyway, Thompson, instead of being in irons, is still the Iron Duke of Ludlow...
Army, along with Penn and Harvard, was given a chance before the season opener to unseat Princeton--the defending league champion. But the Crimson took four of six singles matches and two out of three in doubles to win, despite the absence of Vic Niederhoffer, last year's number three...
...certain sense, of course, Mann is right. As the futile ten-year struggle to oust Peron demonstrated, American attempts to unseat Latin American dictators have been largely ineffective. The danger of a policy of supporting dictatorships, however, is that they eventually fall. At that time, those who supported them become targets for legitimate resentments aroused by the dictators...
...captain Ed Meehan, the runners will be making an all-out attempt to unseat defending champion Villanova and give Harvard its first IC4A crown since 1927. Last year a 14-man contingent took fifth place...
...policy. "They say one should start a revolution, a war," he shouted, "and on the corpses and the ruins, a more prosperous society will be created. And who would remain in this prosperous society? Wouldn't the living envy the dead?" Directly accusing the Chinese of trying to unseat him, Khrushchev dared Peking to take its case to the Soviet people: "I declare to those who would like to overthrow us-I challenge you, comrades-let's pick out any plant or collective farm. You present your program and we will present ours. You won't need...