Word: ejected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...justified because both men affected by the novel proceeding were elected in last February's "rump" election and the passage of time was required for them to demonstrate their lack of interest in Council work. In an ordinary year the effect of the new constitutional provision would be to eject members who chronically neglect to attend meetings in November or December...
...major part of Stettin lies west of the Oder River, provisional Polish-German frontier. But, with Russian consent, the Poles moved over the Oder, took over all of Stettin. Now 200,000 Germans there have been ordered to clear out. There was one Polish concession: they would not eject the Germans until after the harvest...
...President Shukri el-Kuwatly said: "This generation of Syrians will not tolerate seeing one Frenchman walk through the streets of Damascus." In neighboring coastal Lebanon, anti-French feeling mounted. When Lebanese demanded that "something be done here as was done in Syria," they meant that British troops should eject the French from the newly sandbagged public buildings and from street-corner barricades in Beirut, where the French last week emplaced machine guns...
Second only to Harvard Square's Boston Elevated shack, the hideous ibis-nest at Mt. Auburn and Bow is entering its thirty-fifth year as a notorious local traffic hazard. An attempt to eject the occupants and remove the monstrosity from the middle of a public thoroughfare was foiled by camouflaging it as an automobile accident, and the Building Commission has been stalled off by leaning the shaky south wall so that it is supported by the others. It is thus quite possible that the Lampoon Building will stand for at least another year...
...more the professor spoke the more poignant became "the call of the wild." After several hilarious minutes the lecturer, who all this time was trying his utmost to retain his dignity, decided that he'd had enough competition for one morning, and proceeded to take steps to eject the canine from the room...