Word: overthrown
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...ground and registering an 18-yard loss. Confronted with a seemingly impossible third-and-28, Rittgers launched a precarious toss to Andrew Hall in double coverage on the two-yard line. Hall, hemmed in by defenders on all sides, made an astounding one-handed reception on the overthrown pass, instantly gaining back all the lost momentum plus some...
Hall jumped backwards, reached back with one outstretched arm and reeled in the overthrown pass as he crashed to the ground in a heap of players on the Harvard two-yard line. The completion electrified the Dartmouth crowd and had the Harvard contingent staring in disbelief...
...exit strategy from Iraq has always been to install a stable, friendly Iraqi government whose oil revenues would give it financial independence and withdraw the bulk of the force that had overthrown Saddam's regime. But the scale of the challenge of remaking Iraq forced Washington to adapt its plans. When U.S. viceroy Paul Bremer arrived to take the reins from the hapless Jay Garner he chose to keep political authority in U.S. hands rather than betting prematurely on any Iraqi group. To the chagrin of most of Iraq's many political factions, Bremer has put talk of a transitional...
...Unrest followed, and angry citizens took to the streets. This prompted suggestions that the communists were coming, even though Mossadegh was as anti-Soviet as he was anti-British. On Aug. 19, 1953, after the deaths of about 300 people in street riots, the 71-year-old Premier was overthrown. He was replaced by a retired army general, Fazollah Zahedi. The American-friendly Shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, who had earlier fled the country, returned triumphantly, resumed the throne and reasserted his control...
Grounders were routinely bobbled and kicked, fly balls were misjudged and cutoff men overthrown. Onlooking junior varsity players groaned, wondering if the team would finish with more errors or runs per game—and sadly, the answer was usually errors...