Word: overthrown
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...speech at Tehran University, Castro compared the United States to the late Shah of Iran, who was deposed in the 1979 revolution. America is an “imperialist king,” he said, but one that “will finally fall, just as your king was overthrown.” To that end, Castro proclaimed: “The people and the governments of Cuba and Iran can bring the United States to its knees...
...three unconnected provinces inhabited by Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites. Iraqi nationalists quickly became disillusioned with their new, Western masters. The Revolution of 1920 left hundreds of British casualties. The British, America's main ally in this latest invasion, managed to implant a friendly monarchy. But the Hashemites were finally overthrown in a coup d'etat in 1958. It was in those bloody days that Saddam Hussein's terrible political career was born...
...early October 2000, just before Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown in a bloodless popular revolt, the leader of that movement, Zoran Djindjic, placed a call to one of the most feared men in Serbia: Milorad Lukovic, known to his friends as Legija, or the Legionnaire. Djindjic knew that Lukovic, a square-jawed former paramilitary who was commander of the élite Serbian police unit called the Red Berets, could have crushed the uprising that ousted Milosevic. Djindjic wanted assurances that he would not. But he recognized the risk he was taking by even agreeing to meet Lukovic. "If Milosevic wanted...
British forces ousted the Turks by the end of World War I, and the British mandate of Iraq was formally created at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. By 1932 Iraq had won independence and admission to the League of Nations; in 1958 the monarchy was overthrown and a republic proclaimed
Okay, set things in motion. The ball has been overthrown, but this is where free-body diagrams seem to fail. Projectile A shifts into another gear and—with a body control that defies physics—extends fully to catch the ball over his shoulder while leaving the Penn cornerback in the dust...