Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy's day began with an early morning appearance at Milford High School> "Some people think America has to live in fear," he told the students. They think they can't really sleep nights for fear of the country being overthrown by morning." He urged rejection of the notion that North Vietnam and Communist China pose any real threat to America's security...
...modest second-story apartment in the residential section of Kolonaki. With urgent, hurried gestures, Panayotis Kanellopoulos, 64, ushered 15 visitors into his darkened living room. "We have only five minutes," he said. "Let us not stay here too long." Then the last constitutionally appointed Premier of Greece, who was overthrown, imprisoned and later released after the April 21 army coup, broke his long silence with a direct, head-on attack on Greece's military rulers...
There was no question that the government of the Federation of South Arabia was overthrown last week, but where were the people who toppled it? The British-backed sultans, sheiks and emirs were all on the lam, and no one came to take their place. Nine of the 14 Cabinet members were abroad taking "health cures," talking with other Arab leaders or simply salting away their money in foreign banks. Four others were missing-either kidnaped by nationalist rebels or in hiding. That left Hussein Ali Bayoomi, the Information Minister, as almost the lone government official in the deserted federal...
...Viet Cong were ready for an all-out campaign to subvert the countryside. Diem responded with repressive measures that only fueled the Viet Cong's enlistment program. When Diem was finally overthrown by his own generals (without U.S. protest) in 1963, the Viet Cong took a dip in strength. But during the revolving-door sequence of governments that followed Diem, the peasants lost faith in Saigon's ability to rule. The Viet Cong picked up strength again. They began to roam at will through the countryside, backed up by North Vietnamese regular soldiers who had come down...
...work at the highest level convinced him at last that he was serving a vicious criminal cause Rapidly he found himself one of a number of German officers and influential civilians who felt that German honor -not to speak of Europe itself-could survive only if Hitler were overthrown and peace negotiated. Stauffenberg personally enlisted many friends in a conspiracy to this...