Word: overthrown
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Eliot followed the South House TD with the closest thing they got to a tally all afternoon. A long kickoff return and SoHo penalty found the Eliot squad deep in South territory with only seven seconds left in the half. Roy "Hands" McLeese snagged an overthrown Gessner pass with a diving lunge, but time ran out as McLeese hit the ground only yards from the end zone...
...Western news organizations--as "unhealthy." Because local or national newspapers do not play a significant role in African society, "someone in Uganda has to turn on a BBC broadcast 6000 miles away to find out what's going on in his own backyard," Lamb says. After Idi Amin was overthrown, Lamb and another reporter traveled down a dirt road in rural Uganda and discovered that the appearance of two unescorted whites was the only sign. Ugnadans had of Amin's departure. Because African newspapers do not cover their own continent, they are forced to turn to the very news agencies...
...women transformed by the revolution is that their men have difficulty accepting this change. As one AMNLAE organizer explains, "I had to leave my husband. Although he wasn't too pleased when I decided to fight six years ago, he got used to the idea. But once Somoza was overthrown, he expected me to give up political work and tend to our house. He just couldn't accept that I wanted to work rebuilding the country I fought so hard to liberate...
...State Department reported last night that the government of Turkey, a NATO member and strategic military ally of the United States, has been overthrown in a bloodless military coup. Spokesman Sondra McCarty said the U.S. Embassy in Ankara reported no violence or danger to Americans there...
...number of strategic targets. Among them: Khomeini's home north of Tehran, the Tehran International Airport and Faizieh religious school in the holy city of Qum. Tehran spokesmen charged that the plotters hoped to tell Iranians over radio and television that "the patriotic army of Iran has overthrown the rotten government of the mullahs," and then invite Bakhtiar back from his Paris exile to head a ruling military council...