Word: unseating
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Defection from the army has occurred frequently since the war began, although the most dramatic army revolts have been merely attempts to unseat President Ngo Dinh Diem, not necessarily to replace him with the Viet Cong guerrillas. Last year two well-known air force heroes bombed the President's palace and escaped to the Cambodian border claiming to be anti-Communist nationalists and warning of more attacks in the future...
...three fanjet engines mounted in the rear. It is also the only commercial jetliner now under development in the U.S.-and it may be the last. While U.S. airframe companies are all but giving up planemaking, European planemakers are pushing ahead with bold new models that threaten to unseat the U.S. from its traditional position as the world leader in commercial planemaking...
...international emergency crupts as the Russian diplomatic corps in the Gambezi Republic stages a coup d'etat. Television cameras are moved into the Kennedy bedroom to record every stage of Jackie's illness. Meanwhile, the Gambezi U.N. delegation is flown home in U.S. transport planes to help unseat the Russians...
...last two weeks of the campaign. Hoosiers heard little else on radio and television stations. That campaign song was the climactic effort by Democrat Birch Bayh, 34, to unseat three-term Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65. And unseated Homer was. But it was less because of Bayh's jumpy theme-tune than because Capehart looked, talked and acted like an old codger...
...knocking off Incumbent Edwin Dooley in the primary. His opponent is Liberal-Democrat Stanley W. Church, 62, a 20-year mayor of New Rochelle. But the most becoming face of all belongs to Iowa Republican Sonja Egenes, 32, a former Iowa State science professor, who has a chance to unseat Democrat Neal Smith in the district near Des Moines. She accuses Smith of fiscal "insanity," claims he is one of the "most extreme left-wingers in Congress." Smith usually refers to her only as "the young lady...