Word: usurper
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...session after session the tutors warned against any effort on the part of brachy students to usurp dolicho values. These values included organizing social clubs, participating in politics, driving cars, and walking erect...
...figures as Glubb Pasha (former commander of the Arab Legion), Adlai Stevenson, Barry Goldwater and Henry R. Luce. This time students and faculty alike set New Haven palpitating with plans. Passes were issued to members of classes in which the honored visitor would lecture, so that outsiders would not usurp regulars' seats. Radical activists prepared an 18-point questionnaire calculated to embarrass him. Campus conservatives prepared their own rebuttals. Yet when Ronald Reagan showed up in New Haven last week, his hosts were surprised to find him an engaging fellow...
...obviously the underlying issue. The Ad Hoc Committee met for the first time Wednesday, October 10, to begin this study which they had had to postpone because of the immediacy of the first issue. Mrs. Bunting's RPC is not "modeled" after this Committee, but rather is meant to usurp the powers of the one committee which the students involved believe represents them and their desire for student democracy...
...best of him. Impatient with arguments, sensitive to the superior ways of his fellow revolutionaries, Villa grew more and more adamant in his own views of how the new government should be shaped, more and more convinced that those who disagreed with him were enemies trying to usurp the revolution. He once flew into a rage at the powerful General Alvaro Obregón, ordered him at gunpoint to cosign a rebellious telegram, then had to retire for more than an hour to restrain himself from shooting Obregon...
...that's right, at least in the economic field. Other times, he makes a strong case for his brand of individualism: "Nothing is so corrupting to a man as to believe it is his duty to save mankind from men. He comes to evil because he must first usurp the rights of men and finally the prerogatives of God." And occasionally he sounds a warning note worth heeding amid the euphoria of the Great Society. "I believe that once you let someone decide what's good for you, you've got to accept it," he declares...