Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...after the victory of the proletariat and the overthrow of the reactionary leadership in Czechoslovakia, Stalin was vacationing in the Crimea. Klement Gottwald, the Czechoslovak President, and his wife came for a visit. Stalin phoned and asked if I could come to the Crimea as soon as possible. "Gottwald is here and says he can't get along without you. He absolutely demands that you come." This was Stalin's idea of humor...
...1970s produced a few sprouts of freedom. Women appeared on TV for the first time, and educational opportunities for them were expanded. But the overthrow of the Westernizing Shah of Iran by the Ayatullah Khomeini's followers in 1979 froze the budding trend toward liberalization. Later that year, the royal family was shocked when 250 armed religious extremists occupied the Grand Mosque in Mecca. Their defeat took two weeks and cost 229 lives. Suddenly the regime became more devout. Executions were stepped up. And the mutawa, the religious police, gained greater influence. Its members patrol the streets carrying slender sticks...
...manifestations of his dramatic self. One, his namesake, directs and oversees the scripted action. The other players are a pedantic and highly affected professor; an Irish lad of 20 with many a fantastic tale to weave; and "YER MAN," the principal narrator who is engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow Nash...
...director exchange insults. "YER MAN" refuses to perform large sections of the play out of spite, Nash threatens to slap him with hemorrhoids. The narrator, a seasoned artistic creation, joins the union of characters who meet surreptitiously in the recesses of the writer's mind to plot his overthrow. He laments the creation of new, politically native characters who flood the job market...
After a week-long diplomatic gavotte over protocol, representatives of the four factions in Cambodia's civil war were all present in Jakarta last weekend. On hand were Prime Minister Hun Sen and leaders of two of the three guerrilla armies fighting to overthrow him: Son Sann and Khieu Samphan of the infamous Khmer Rouge. The third, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, pleaded a last- minute illness and sent a stand...