Word: banishing
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...stood to lose the students' business. Barricades went up all over town; revolution was pending. "I will never abandon Lola!" the King shouted. "She is the most noble of creatures. My crown for Lola!" Persuaded at last that the mob would kill her if he did not banish her, Ludwig yielded. Lola made the next train out of town, a casualty of her own political incompetence...
...Soviet factory and question time in the British House of Commons. It is no place for the thin-skinned or the nervous. Smoking is forbidden and only mineral water is on hand to revive the fainthearted. Those attending sit round a horseshoe-shaped table. The windows are curtained to banish time. Most members of the Manhattan contingent, who fly over by chartered Pan American 707 jet, keep their watches on Eastern Standard Time. Monthly and year-to-date financial results are flashed on a big screen. They show whether the company or group is doing better or worse than...
Malle manages the technical side of his scenario with facility. There are funny moments in the classroom and at home when Laurent and his brothers torment the family maid. Malle, however, seeks to banish the Oedipal shadows that cloud his story by turning almost everything into comedy. Instead of forming an ironic counterpoint to the dark psychology of the story, safe and easy laughter trivializes it, stifling the pain of true recall...
Since crime is often emotionally satisfying, a major problem is how to banish its thrills. One way is suggested by the work of Psychologist Ivar Lovaas with certain disturbed children who consistently try to mutilate themselves. He noticed that when the children went on a rampage, nurses warmly cuddled them and thus unconsciously rewarded their destructiveness. Instead Lovaas now jolts the kids with an electric cattle prod, often stopping the behavior pattern in hours or minutes. In his book Crime and Personality, Psychologist H.J. Eysenck offers a fascinating discussion of how certain depressant or stimulant drugs can be used...
...throaty bass: "In the name of God, know that thou hast erred by desecrating this pure land, by acting more ferociously than a hungry tiger in devouring the lives of living beings. Curse be on thee, polluting industrialist! May God crack thine head to seven pieces and banish thee once and for all to inferno...