Word: dispossessed
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...said he had "less respect" for Rhodes than anyone he had ever run against, declared the winner absolutely unqualified to hold public office. He also vowed that he would hunt for evidence of fraud in Rhodes's auditorship until the very day in January when Republicans would finally dispossess him of his office in the squat, ugly capitol building in Columbus. In fact, Mike Di Salle should have remained a jolly...
...brother was costing him votes. As last week's election approached, Republicans and Democrats alike were grumbling about Stew Udall's apparent attempt to shift part of the blame for Cuba to the Eisenhower Administration; more fuss was raised by his decision at Interior to dispossess farmers who had been squatting for years along the Colorado River in Yuma County...
...title story, the Old Man of the Sea is played by an extraordinarily antic marriage broker who enmeshes a young rabbinical student as thoroughly as Susskind did Fidelman. The Mourners tells of a gross landlord who, in trying to dispossess an unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The Loan joins a man who desperately needs help with one who desperately wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive...
...Macao subsists merely by sufferance of the Chinese, who can starve the place and dispossess the Portuguese whenever they please. This obliges the governor to behave with great circumspection and carefully to avoid every circumstance that may give offense to the Chinese...
Removal of "other University agencies" from the Memorial Hall basement to make room for extra-curricular activities would presumably dispossess the Psychological and Psycho-Acoustic Laboratories recently moved to quarters there...