Word: banisher
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...Australians. To banish the old, bitter race names-pommy (Englishman), dago, hunky-Calwell invented the appellation "New Australian" for all immigrants. It stuck. A Good Neighbor movement was launched and hundreds of clubs formed to bring New Australians and Old Australians together. Assimilation has had its failures. The conservative British Medical Association opposes the registration of European doctors. The Trades and Labor Council, jealous custodian of half a century of labor gains, was outraged when hard-working immigrants refused to take "morning tea breaks" and volunteered to work in the rain. The Communists circularized dockworkers: "Most immigrant Bails are fascists...
...asked its more influential brother (circ. 221,972): "Would the Times have preferred this vivacious young woman to marry one of the witless wonders with whom she has been hobnobbing these past few years? Or to live her life in devoted spinsterhood? Luckily the Times cannot banish Princess Margaret. It speaks for a dusty world and a forgotten...
Since then, Perón's police have arrested scores of priests and hundreds of Catholic laymen for showing "disrespect," distributing Catholic reading matter or taking part in Catholic demonstrations. His Congress has passed measures that 1) legalize divorce, 2) forbid outdoor religious gatherings, 3) banish religious instruction from public schools, 4) wipe out the tax exemptions of religious institutions, 5) call for election of a national assembly to cut away the constitution's provisions linking the government and the Catholic Church...
...Paul Vincent Carroll) is a St. Francis-like Irish canon, who-to his own and his bishop's distress -gets a name for sainthood thrust upon him. His noticeable talents for talking to birds, healing children and making plums grow on cherry trees have forced the bishop to banish him to a remote country parish. There, in the form of a worldly baron, appears an emissary of the Devil, panting after such a trophy as the soul of a saint. Under the baron's prodding, the canon begins to think he really is a saint, starts meddling...
...Arab, was well known to everybody . . .* By the age of twelve he was a heavy drinker. Often as a sequel to his drinking bouts, his stupefied little body might be seen carried home on someone's shoulder. His father, deeply ashamed and hopeless of reclaiming him, could only banish him to live as he would in a paddy godown outside the town. The boy brewed his own liquor there...