Word: usurper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking on the White House lawn, Mubarak denounced the policy change as a "rash" attempt to "usurp the rights of Palestinian people in their country and on their land." A day later, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter lambasted the Israeli policy as "contrary to the spirit and intent" of the Camp David accord...
...Industrial Age and mass production, technology has been used to create an independent man-made community which exploits the environment for its own material profit. These tools--railroads to transport us, toilets to dispose of our waste, electrical power plants to provide fuel--are totally self-serving and often usurp the natural resources on which all life depends...
...currently holds four Columbia career records. When he poled his eighth homer of the season in a 9-0 rout of St. John's he shattered the season record of seven set 65 years ago by a sophomore named Lou Gehrig. Sixty years from now Wilhite's glove may usurp the place presently occupied by Gehrig's dog-eared mitt, which is enshrined in Columbia's Butter Library...
Somoza's position began to deteriorate rapidly after he suffered a heart attack in late July. During his two month convalescence in Miami, some of Somoza's underlings attempted to usurp power in anticipation of the dictator's death. At the same time traditional opponents advanced their demands for political reforms. On his return to the country, Somoza--who remains under doctor's orders not to work more than three hours a day--dismissed the overly-ambitious officials, but in doing so he exacerbated the internal divisions within the state and military apparatus...
...watch the aging Henry II of The Lion In Winter try to hold together the tenuous union of twelfth century fiefdoms he had built. But with one son unable to understand why a house must be undivided and with the other wickedly conspiring with his mother to usurp all, Henry doesn't have much of a chance from the start. By staging the play this weekend, the Leverett House Drama Society is readapting an adaptation, known better as the movie version with Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn as Eleanore of Acquitaine, the independently minded queen, to the setting...