Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.P.s of all parties have been agitated by the nagging conviction that both Khamas got a dirty deal. "There can be very little doubt in anyone's mind," declared Tory M.P. Julian Amery, "that the government decided to banish . . . Seretse because of his marriage to a European woman. They were anxious to avoid giving offense . . . [but] instead of frankly stating the real reason . . . the [government] endeavored to find an alternative explanation . . ." Amery added that the government had "seized upon the difference of opinion which existed between Seretse and Tshekedi and magnified it, puffed it up," until London "could pretend...
...official first presented her to Amherst College in 1857.* From the first, Amherst men heaped indignities upon her, painting stockings on her shapely limbs, clothing her in gaudy diapers, lugging her away from her pedestal to celebrate football victories. In the '80s, Amherst's president tried to banish her from the campus, but the janitor charged with her disposal confessed that he "couldn't kill a woman" and hid Sabrina in his own barn...
...dreadful dropsy grows apace, Nor can the sufferer banish thirst, Unless the cause of the malady has first Departed from the veins...