Word: unseating
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Even if Youngstown's Guildsmen hold out long enough to cop the national title, they will have to go some to unseat the North American champions. On June 4, typographers struck Montreal's La Presse, a French-language daily that is the city's biggest (circ. 253,607). Having come to terms with the strikers, La Presse went back on the newsstands at the turn of the year-just 214 days after it stopped publishing...
...Congressmen who are currently considering committee reforms and rules changes would concentrate Congress could unseat the Mississippi delegation. It would be a drastic reform, but it is time for the House to recognize that Mississippi's districts are boroughs as rotten as old Sarum ever...
...your October 15th issue you supported Bobby Kennedy's drive to unseat Senator Ken Keating in New York. The Crimson endorsement did not display the balanced and judicious reasoning, cool eye, and steady judgment usually so evident in your editorial column. Had you displayed your customary good form, I do think you would have been kinder to Senator Keating...
Levin H. Campbell, a Republican just finishing his first term as a state representative from Cambridge, is trying to unseat a veteran state senator, Francis X. McCann, in the Second Middlesex District, which includes the University and much of Cambridge. Campbell's over-all voting record, even allowing for straight party-line divisions, is not especially distinguished. He helped kill an extension of unemployment benefits and a needed revision of the state income and property taxes, and unsuccessfully opposed bills to raise the minimum salaries of public-school teachers and to create a consumers' council for investigating unethical business practices...
...James Wilde. "There's something of the feeling here that existed in the Middle Ages when the plague struck," he added. "You have big feasts and orgies." Brief Reprieve. There was even a festive air at the trial of 13 officers and seven civilians charged with attempting to unseat General Khanh last month...