Word: banishment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These, roughly, are the facts, and one can do whatever one wishes with them. One can argue that the army acted to save democracy, and to banish Communism from Brazil. The argument is supported by the probability that Goulart planned to rule, at best, by Gaullist plebiscite and by the fact that in its first two days the army regime has arrested two thousand Brazilians which it has labeled Communists...
...final years, and unconvinced of the need for any kind of student government, more than two thirds of the student body failed to vote in the referendum on the HCUA constitution. It is doubtful that more people would vote in a refrendum today, unless it would be to banish the Council altogether...
...contrast, the U.S. is forever trying to banish sin from the universe-and finding new sins to worry about. The new sex freedom in the U.S. does not necessarily set people free. Psychoanalyst Rollo May believes that it has minimized external social anxiety but increased internal tension. The great new sin today is no longer giving in to desire, he thinks, but not giving in to it fully or successfully enough. While enjoyment of sex has increased for many, the "competitive compulsion to prove oneself an acceptable sexual machine" makes many others feel neurotically guilty, hence impotent or frigid...
...vision of lamentation and gnashing of teeth, of men who said sleep, sleep, but got no sleep, of fear and dread, of nameless horrors, for verily it was the examinations period and the poor damned souls had no CRIMSON to assuage their miseries, banish their grief, or even to wrap their fish and cover their nakedness (see page one) except for Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays...
...need the can-do spirit of the American businessmen," the President told the group, which is headed by A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel and includes such prominent executives as Henry Ford II, Roger Blough and Ralph Cordiner. "So I ask you: banish your fears, shed your doubts, renew your hopes. We have much work...