Word: banished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still be easily put aside by an effort of good sportsmanship, as was shown four years ago when anti-Roosevelt businessmen rallied generally to pledge cooperation to the man elected by the Democratic majority. That pledge did not prove lasting, and for a good reason: good sportsmanship may banish bitterness engendered in the brief heat of a campaign, but it cannot make men believe in things which they have come to distrust progressively over a period of years...
Recently he had been forced, for political considerations (there was a campaign on), to banish from his side a number of his closest friends, headed by stringy, loyal Harry Hopkins. The strict procession of his daily chores, his day-&-night responsibility for the U. S. (there was a world revolution on) had left him few minutes in any day for the relaxations a plain citizen may enjoy...
...most powerful art critic in the world is Adolf Hitler. Like many of his tribe, Critic Hitler was himself once an unsuccessful painter. Like all critics, he takes his art very seriously, considers himself pretty knowledgeable. Not only does he know what he likes; he is able to banish from sight in the Third Reich everything he doesn't like. There is a lot of art he doesn't like: 1) the highly individualistic sort (spattery impressionism, cubist geometry, African-influenced neo-primitives, Freudian surrealist nightmares) that made Paris the artistic capital of the pre-war world...
France, said Laval, will ban all strikes and lockouts; will banish "international doctrines," bar from power any politician who ever played with the Popular Front of Léon Blum, Edouard Daladier; will oppose any effort to stimulate class consciousness, do all in its power to insure "a friendly press." Laval's France is through being "a humanitarian crusader for other nations," will hereafter look out for herself alone. By way of looking after France's interest, the Pétain Government sent Great Britain, France's former ally, a demand for reparations for the damage done...