Word: unseats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after King and other insurgents failed to unseat Jackson, they led 500,000 blacks out of the organization and formed the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The majority of black Baptist churches and minister stayed with N.B.C.U.S.A. out of loyalty to their denomination. Nonetheless, since Baptist congregations are autonomous thousands of N.B.C.U.S.A. churches simply ignored Jackson's preachments and supported King's struggle...
...ridiculed as "old hat" letters that Nkomo had sent from London proposing talks to solve Zimbabwe's internal problems. Then, to the surprise of most of the M.P.s present, Zvobgo announced that, because the government was not "vindictive or divisive," he would withdraw the controversial motion to unseat Nkomo...
...store owners and other retailers queue up at the Consumer Electronics Show every June to place orders for the Christmas selling season. When participants gather this week in Chicago for the annual bazaar, however, the hot topic of conversation will not be whether Zaxxon or Keystone Kapers will unseat Centipede as the industry's bestselling videogame. It will be: What's going on at Atari...
Jesse Jackson seconds that warning. He is scouring the South, trying to enroll at least 180% of the region's 2.6 million "" unregistered black voters in an effort to unseat "pro-Reagan Democratic Boll Weevils and Republican Reaganites," including Senators Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Jackson has been openly flirting with the prospect of running for President and promotes the notion of a black candidacy as a way to maintain political drive. "We are going to the White House," Jackson says. "We are going from the guttermost to the uppermost." Running, he says...
Most liberal activists wanted for the Senator to make a move. If he chose to run, they would support him. If he chose not to enter the face, they would forgo the attempt to unseat the President. But "here Lowenstein differed" writes Halberstam. "He was determined to go ahead whether or not Kennedy made the race." After an unsuccessful appeal to George McGovern, Lowenstein approached Eugene McCarthy a liberal Senator from Minnesota. McCarthy agreed to head the alternative ticket, and Lowenstein threw his energy into the campaign...