Word: overthrown
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that the Hanukkah miracle happened. The Assyrians were overthrown in Jerusalem, and according to legend, when the Jews returned to purge the temple of its alien idols and rededicate it, there was only sacred oil enough for one day's burning of the temple lamp. Yet the lamp burned eight full days...
...majority against Faure was 318 to 218-six more than a constitutional majority of the 622-man Chamber. Only ten months before, Mendès had also been defeated by a constitutional majority, and the constitution provides that the Assembly can be dissolved if two successive governments are so overthrown within 18 months. But no Premier under the Fourth Republic ever has invoked this right, nor any chief executive under the Third Republic since Marshal MacMahon did it in 1877. MacMahon succeeded only in discrediting himself as an "anti-parliamentary traitor," and the device with him. Under the Fourth Republic...
When the present French Assembly expires, all France-and most of the rest of the world, too-will find it easy to contain its grief. In 4½ years, the Assembly has overthrown six governments, spent one week out of every five bogged down in a Cabinet crisis, tabled more than 13,000 bills while approving less than 1,000. Last week the Deputies were maneuvered into voting themselves out of office six months before their time...
...chastened mood. Stubby little Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay spent hours in corridors and offices whipping his moderates and rightists into line. If they were counting on him to replace Faure, he told them, they were wrong. He would flatly refuse to accept the premiership. "If the government is overthrown," he said, "it will mean rejection of the European statute for the Saar, revival of German nationalism, undermining of the Atlantic alliance, and France's inability to play any influential role at the four-power talks in Geneva...
Among the gauds and gods of sinful Babylon, the young and earnest Isaiah is a prophet without honor or glamour. Beaten and spit upon, the visionary nonetheless convinces a hard core of the faithful that Babylon will be overthrown and the Jews restored to their ancient homeland. At novel's end, the first of the Jews are on the homeward march. Occasionally moving in his hours of trial, Asch's man of God often seems less the eloquent, God-intoxicated psalm-singer of the great Biblical text ("Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion . . .") than a bearded...