Word: evict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settlers plan to evict all Kikuyus from a five-mile-wide buffer zone surrounding the 12,000-ft. Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
Guests of the House. In Beverly Hills, Calif., the Beverly Hills Hotel filed suit against Mr. & Mrs. Sam Genis for $50,000, moved to evict them from their $1,375-a-month suite, charged that the couple
...often the University is forced into a paradoxical situation. After it buys a property, it sometimes finds that it cannot just evict the tenants, even though they may be living in old, run-down houses. The University ran into this problem when it bought 16, 18, 20, and 22 De Wolf Street, a block of ugly tenements behind Dunster House. The rest Harvard collects covers only maintenance costs...
Easter was no holiday for Jasper McKee '51, a Washington, D. C., resident who was driving from New York to College. Just outside of New Haven, an angry bee caused him to stop his car and evict the hitch-hiker...
Even after a new man was appointed, the lady bellringer clung to her job and to her three small rooms behind the cathedral. Finally the dean took steps to evict her. "This is no job for a woman," he said. "Of her six girls, two are practically young women now. The sensible thing is to force her to leave." Said a young Lima matron: "The dean is right. Her daughters are pretty and that is likely to make people talk." At week's end, after receiving a cash indemnity, the lady bellringer was turned out of her rooms. Said...