Word: unseated
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...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...
Last April, Cronkite told a crowd of cheering Harvard seniors on Class Day that their task was to unseat a "modern Four Horsemen of Apocalyse:" over-population, pollution, scarcity of natural resources and the proliferation of atomic weapons...
...Terry Dolan has come a long way since 1967. Armed with the most sophisticated mass-mailing system in the country--courtesy of New Right mastermind Richard Vigueric--Dolan helped unseat several of the Senate's most powerful old-guard Democrats last year. Among the "targets" who fell were George McGovern of South Dakota, Birch Bayh of Indiana, and Frank Church of Idaho. Now, Dolan plans to expand his attack--launching his leaflets at several members of the GOP up for re-election in 1982, including Sens. John Chafee (R-R.I.), Robert Stafford (R-Vt.), and Weicker, whom he will...
...much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that he would lead a proxy fight to unseat the Kennecott management. If victorious, Berner planned to sell off Carborundum and pay out the money to Kennecott shareholders. In the process, he would have obtained control of Kennecott, a company seven times the size of Curtiss-Wright...