Word: usurps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their outlook on disarmament. They should further bear in mind that members of the Harvard community must not be implicated to an extent greater than their participation. And perhaps most important, Tocsin must not let the less rational (and less representative) participants succeed in their inevitable attempt to usurp the walk and use it as a platform for their own nuclear-dogma...
...Communist Party, seeing its postion threatened by this rapprochement, overplayed its hand in seeking to usurp further power. Fortunately, Kassim had not been placed in a position wherein his only alternative was to sacrifice the autonomy of his Revolution to Communist aims...
...play should be a part of this process. A roster of the plays presented before the advent of the Loeb and solely on student initiative shows a variety and quality that leave no cause for now depriving interested students of the right of choice; for the committee to usurp this right under a cloak of doing otherwise is both unwise and dishonest...
...Powell finally edged out the incumbent two years ago by a few hundred votes and repeated the performance again this year in a pair of battles that have left no trace of harmony in the party. With the backing of the vituperative, reactionary Loeb newspapers, he is trying to usurp complete control of the party and the Executive Department. He is feuding bitterly with Attorney General Louis Wyman and the 450-member Republican legislature and has even alienated the national party. In the primary last March he demanded that he be Nixon's campaign manager, then said Kennedy was "soft...
Because we don't quite know on sight who is who, we soon begin to lose the threads of the sloppily woven plot. Briefly stated, the opera tells of the rivalry between the princes Khovansky and Golitzin and their attempt to usurp the throne...