Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plata, where practically the entire (8,500) student body of the National University walked out, swashbuckling, militantly liberal University President Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios refused to dismiss six professors. When he received a second order, he resigned. The Vice President refused to accept the post, resigned likewise. So did the next two Councilmen in line. The mantle fell finally on the willing shoulders of nationalistic Dr. Ricardo Labougle. When he tried to speak to striking students, he was received with rotten eggs and firecrackers...
...glance at the patient would have prevented; 7) some patients, the "constitutional inadequates," are victims of an "ineradicable disease" and there is no use spending your time and their money trying to make them healthy; 8) always tell a patient the truth (avoiding, if possible, the word "cancer"); 9) dismiss pigheaded, stupid patients who will not take advice while they are still friendly; 10) do not let it break your morale when you make a diagnostic mistake-"I just say to myself that I did the best I knew...
...eventually took most of the class to dismiss the dog, and rumor has it that the Professor in question went directly home and shot his wife's pet poodle, but your correspondent wouldn't place much stock in that scuttlebutt . . . you know how these rumors grow...
...right to reorganize the army: i.e., the right to place younger, less traditionalist officers in command posts, to dismiss all ranking officers who earned the reputation of collaborationist...
Government must dismiss rebelling civil servants individually or accede to T.U.C.'s demand. But Sir Walter bluntly warned the Government against dismissing them. Said he: "We are determined to use such power as we possess to see that no revengeful punishment . . . will be imposed by anyone without the power of this movement* being placed in protection of the individual civil servants...