Word: usurper
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...appears, as this goes to press," said the Montgomery, Ala., Advertiser, "that Governor Wallace has dispatched state troopers to Mobile and Huntsville to usurp local power by force. If this becomes the fact, the Advertiser must sorrowfully conclude that, in this instance, its friend has gone wild." As the week wore on and the Advertiser's fears became fact, the paper reached its inevitable conclusion: "It is very hard, be certain, for the Advertiser to say it, but the fact is that Governor Wallace made a monkey of himself...
...communications center," the CIC's function, as stated in the 1962 Annual Report, is "to aid member universities in improving educational and public services by adding strength to strength, as well as to avoid excess costs by minimizing duplication." An administrative agency, the CIC does not seek to usurp power, for the member schools remain autonomous: a majority cannot dictate to any one university, and all projects are voluntary...
...were fortunate enough a couple of months ago to usurp an hour of the busy and valuable time of Dr. Jonathan Miller. Dr. Miller, who is short, active, red-haired, in his twenties, and of course, English, was in town for the Boston opening of Beyond the Fringe, the successful satirical revue of which he is both a co-author and a co-star; and he received us, among others, in a cavernous room in Tiffany's Hotel, where he, his wife, and a two-month old baby, Tommy, had been unwillingly billeted for the duration of their stay...
...Veteran James Meredith. But Democratic Governor Ross Barnett has no intention of complying. He demanded that all state officials "uphold and enforce the laws duly and legally enacted by the legislature . . . and interpose state sovereignty and themselves between the people of the state and any body politically seeking to usurp such power." In invoking the doctrine of "interposition," which has been held unconstitutional, Barnett declaimed that "there is no case in history where the Caucasian race has survived social integration," promised that "we will not drink from the cup of genocide" by submitting to "the tyranny of judicial oppression...
...Hiss case, which "left a residue of hatred and hostility toward me" 2) the Nixon fund, which almost got him tossed off the Republican national ticket in 1952; 3) the Eisenhower heart attack of 1955, when Nixon faced the delicate task of assuming responsibility without appearing to usurp power; 4) the riotous Nixon visit to South America in 1958, which almost ended in his death at the hands of a Caracas mob; Sy the "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev during Nixon's 1959 mission to Moscow, and " 6) the 1960 campaign itself...