Word: banish
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...HARVARD, shake off the famous indifference, banish that deadly, dumb apathy that prevailed Saturday, make an effort to drown out your leaders' orders, and learn to take a beating on your feet as your team does instead of quitting and waiting for the timer's whistle to count you out! ALLEN D. BLISS...
...Umpire. It is the Umpire's function to settle disputes, to give or withhold credit for this or that answer. The Umpire is omnipotent and is empowered to banish people from the house, if necessary...
...that the U. S. Government chose 1909 as the year in which to banish Indian heads from pennies and replace them with the head of Lincoln...
...night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were...
...Chamorro who forced the Nicaraguan Congress to elect him President after he had virtually seized that office by a military coup (TIME, Sept. 21). Neither has General Chamorro been recognized as president by a potent Nicaraguan faction led by onetime Vice President Sacasa, whom General Chamorro compelled Congress to banish. Operating from Guatemala, Dr. Sacasa has launched a series of insufficiently prepared and unsuccessful revolts. Last week these counter revolutions were deemed of sufficient magnitude by Secretary Kellogg to call for the presence of U. S. gunboats to protect U. S. commercial interests in Nicaragua. Anti-Chamorrists, vexed, declared that...