Word: overturned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...primaries below the Mason-Dixon. But at vote-counting time in the as-good-as-elected Democratic primary late last week, Albert Gore was renominated with 60% of the total, and swamped Cooper-watermelons, manifestoes and all-under a bigger vote than he dredged up to overturn the late Kenneth D. McKellar...
...negative and vacillating National Assembly which, under the Fourth Republic, used its untrammeled power to make and smash 25 governments in twelve years. Under the projected Fifth Republic, the Assembly would meet for only 5½ months a year v. the present seven, would be able to overturn a Premier only by means of a censure motion approved by an absolute majority. More crippling yet, the Assembly would have virtually no direct control over defense, basic economic policy or-apart from treaty ratification-over the conduct of foreign affairs. Any legislation which the government demanded as a matter of confidence...
...Aneurin Bevan, so long the terror of the Tories, summed up Labor's position: "We do not commend these proposals . . . but we advise the Greeks and Turks not to reject them out of hand." And if agreement was reached, added Laborite Jim Callaghan, "we would not seek to overturn it." In the same mood of conciliation, Prime Minister Macmillan noted, "We have of course no special pride of authorship which will make us stick obstinately to this or that detail of the plan. We shall certainly be flexible." Labor did not want to upset the mood by forcing...
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took just as strong a position against a thinly veiled attempt of Egypt's Dictator Nasser to overturn the pro-U.S. government of Lebanon, a threat backstopped by a call from Moscow Radio last week for "volunteers." Dulles handed Nasser and the Communists a thinly veiled warning that the U.S. was ready to help the U.N. or act on its own to help the Lebanese government maintain the country's "integrity and independence." Said Dulles: 1) the U.S. Sixth Fleet is "watching the situation"; 2) some elements of the fleet "could...
...seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...