Word: dispossession
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...repeatedly threw his landlady, who was attempting to dispossess him, out of his apartment, causing her to be hospitalized for bruises, shock, a possible fractured...
...governmental prize package must be disposed of. The ponderous tomes, at present piled waist high about a Lowell House study, threaten to dispossess the owner. It is planned that they be offered to the Lowell House library, but in event of polite refusal by that body, the student will be left, as it were, holding the bags...
Secretary Ickes has pacified Governor Murray by assuring him that the National Recovery Administration does not really intend to dispossess the forty thousand Oklahomans on "uneconomic marginal lands." The Secretary only meant that it might be a good thing if "uneconomic" agricultural pursuits were discontinued, as indeed it would. But the clash, monetary as it was, yet succeeded in raising a problem at once delicate and important. What is the position of the individual in the face of the drastic national administration of the Recovery...
...following month, I was informed that Mr. Cummins must withdraw at once, owing to insulting letters written by him to the Government. The letters were written owing to the Mexican Government seeking to dispossess Mrs. Evans, a British subject, of her farm. The proceedings as reported to me were irregular and illegal and Mr. Cummins would have been lacking in his duty had he made no representations in her behalf...
Radicals and their friends seem to suffer from an elephantiasis of the sense of fair play. This sense shrinks to the bourgeois normal when radicalism becomes respectable, as in Russia. In this country the radicals hardly promise a "square deal" to those whom they seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess of power. If we seek to dispossess the radicals of the power they now have, is it just to apply their own maxims against them? "He who seeks justice must come with clean hands." J. M. WOOD...