Word: divest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...words listed below in sentences that will illustrate their respective meanings: incoherent, dietary, punitive, travesty, succinct, insurgent, malcontent, and divest...
...Divest problems will inflict you on this task...
...setting for this is France in the days of the Fronde--1648--when a group of Parisians were trying to divest the Queen-mother and her ten year old son, Louis XIV, of power. In a thoroughgoing revision of history, the original Musketeers' children save the Queen from her precarious position, rescue the Sun King from a monestery, and save his sister from the clutches of a bonafide villain in the old style, the Duc de Laville. For additional merriment, Ferris and Hofman have provided that Athos, one of the original Three Musketeers, should have a daughter (Maureen O'Hara...
Cocked Pistol. But the trustbusters have not relented in their war on A & P. They are now trying to force A & P to get rid of its non-retail subsidiaries and to sell its seven retail divisions to separate owners-trying, in short, to divest the Hartfords of their empire. Says Mr. John wryly: "We'd be too crooked to run it." The Hartford brothers have fought back, and fought hard. When they planned a series of full-page ads attacking the trustbusters, A & P's lawyers warned the Hartfords that they might be sent to jail...
...Divest itself of any foreign holdings in which it has less than 100% of the capital stock...