Word: banisher
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Hodder contends that if his players can only banish the thought that they are inferior to the other sixes they meet, they will be getting their share of wins. And the way the team played during the last two games shows that this policy is beginning to have its effect...
Avowed purpose of the feverish membership drive which the Axis put on last week was to bring "peace" to Europe. The best way to do this, according to the polite little speeches with which the signers blotted their signatures last week, is to banish the last vestige of British influence from the continent of Europe. By week's end this aim had been very nearly accomplished. But there were still four Balkan countries whose attitudes, though not necessarily influenced by Britain, were in varying degrees unsatisfactory to the Axis. These were Yugoslavia, Russia, Turkey and brave Greece...
...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...