Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet an Enigma" in the Lowell House Common Room monday night was that Communism has greatly improved many aspects of Russian life. Nicholas Slonimski, a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, stated that music audiences in the Soviet have increased many fold since the Czarist regime was overthrown. A member of the Communist Party gave statistics to show that Soviet industrial power has been growing steadily, particularly in the last ten years, and regeneration of Soviet science was emphasized by Dirk Strulk...
...Many more thought it saddled the U. S. with moral commitments that it could not fulfill, or could fulfill only by an expenditure of blood and treasure out of all proportion to the gain. How could the many Governments in exile be restored to power? How could Hitler be overthrown without a U. S. expeditionary force? Colonel Lindbergh asked: What plan did the U. S. have for making itself effective in Europe? Other isolationist writers put a sharper question: How could supplying Britain with the "tools" do more than prolong the war? How could 2,000,000 British soldiers, even...
...some definite news. He started out the door, but before he had taken many steps, the noise of a machine gun split the air; so he went back into the house and suppressed his curiosity for that evening. The next morning he learned that a man named Kerensky had overthrown the Czar's government and set up a republic. He didn't bother to go to the office. At the age of twenty-nine, he found himself without...
...unemployed many days before he ran into a friend named Bakmeteff, who had just been appointed Ambassador to the United States by Kerensky. Bakmeteff asked him to be secretary to the Embassy. They wouldn't be gone long. Six months, perhaps. This was in May. By November, Lenin had overthrown Kerensky and the Russian Embassy was left floating in Washington with no government to stand on. In 1922 the Embassy agreed to disband and each person went off on his own. Karpovitch was again without a job. He could have gone back to Russia, but he thought the Bolshevik movement...
...Program of Naziism. But the war is not yet won. Do not think that Hitler and Nazidom are going to be easily overthrown. Hitler is certainly going to make another attempt next year-and earlier rather than later-to beat down our resistance by new methods and still greater violence, and so open the way to world domination for the Nazis...