Word: divest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think everyone here will agree with me that the difference between the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations is that with Roosevelt we were drifting toward socialism, but with Truman there is no drift-it's a headlong rush . . ." Said Summerfield: "We must be brutally frank." The G.O.P. should "divest itself of 'me-too-ism' and go to the people with a program clearly defined and unmistakably in opposition to that now offered by our opponents...
...lesson need be learned to divest the Christian mind of bourgeoisie habits of complacency, of class consciousness, of the fear of change and revolution . . . Preaching stations that cannot be effectively maintained may be discontinued. Inefficient clergymen may be advised to discover their livelihood in other services...
Offer to Sell. 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. voluntarily agreed to the first part of the Attorney General's suggestion on how moviemakers should divest themselves of part of their theater holdings (TIME, Oct.11). In a proposal filed with a New York federal court, 20th Century-Fox agreed to sell its interest in 260 partly owned theaters. Still to be determined was how many of its 460 wholly owned outlets the company would be allowed to keep...
...hearing Dec. 1. Even the strikers were worried at the prospect that their jobs might be wiped out for good. Said one union leader: "We'd rather go back to work for National. Potentially it's the best airline in the country-if Baker would just divest himself of the operations...
...This is the last of my columns," he wrote. "A column is heady stuff for the ego. The heckling of bigots is the best sport this earth affords. . . . And it is an advantage to a man of intellectual choler to have ... a weekly oblong where he can divest himself of the indignation occasioned by the antics of his brother-imbeciles. But all this, I yield, and gladly. For my column has been a failure...