Word: banishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...declared the two state governors "in a true state of belligerence with the federal government," and the President went to Congress. If the Congressmen declare a state of siege, Goulart will assume power to censor the press, ban political meetings, search homes and make arrests without warrants, restrict travel, banish anyone to "any healthful populated area" in Brazil, and seize all state militias...
...most obvious way to get more out of college students, teachers and school facilities is to banish the long, fallow summer vacation. The means for doing so is the "trimester" plan, by which the school year is divided into three terms of 14 weeks each, leaving only one month of summer vacation and turning out B.A. graduates in less than three years. The largest application of the trimester plan got under way last fall in Florida, where by order of the state legislature all four state campuses (enrollment: 31,030) adopted the new calendar. Now, with a year of trimester...
...Premier Bitar cried: The time of the strongman is past! We are opposed to the cult of personality, and this is one of the great differences between ourselves and Nasser. We've suffered much in the past through 'strongmanism,' and we're determined to banish it forever...
...technicians are aiding in an Argentine campaign to banish foot-and-mouth disease through inoculations of cattle. The campaign has already freed 75% of the country's herds from the disease...
...Soviet capital, 2,000 Muscovites met at the stadium as a people's court to pass judgment on three "young healthy fellows" who were accused of having "wasted their youth" on drunken sprees, gambling, and black market dealings with foreigners. After the citizens voted unanimously to banish the wastrels from Moscow, all three were sentenced to five years' hard labor in what the authorities delicately called "a remote part of the country...