Word: evict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then there are the ring sellers whose wares are worthless. An expresident of The Crimson once told me that he was the only guy on his corridor who managed to evict the ring salesman who obnoxiously pushed his way into his room: "I told him I was a Seventh Day Adventist and that we aren't allowed to wear jewelry." If nothing else works, I guess you ought to give that...
Bonilla vowed that the Lucchetti workers would continue occupying the factory until the government did something to improve their lot. Just what the government could do, he did not detail. But he warned that if any attempt is made to evict the workers forcibly, they will fight back. "And if this means civil war, then...
...Federal government made no move to evict the occupiers during the six-day takeover, although The New York Times reported that the Interior Department wanted to forcibly remove the militants from the building...
...free after two to six months in the outside world. Another 13, having held regular full-time jobs for six months, will graduate soon. No family member has been arrested while living on Pacific Heights, and crime in the area has not increased, though hostile neighbors are trying to evict the group on the grounds that they are not really a family and thus are violating zoning regulations...
...cover the cost of garrisoning 2,800 troops on the island had been refused by Maltese Prime Minister Dom Mintoff. The fiery Mintoff, in rebuffing the routine payment from the Bank of England, 1) demanded higher rent from Britain; 2) intimated that he would evict the troops unless he received it; 3) flew to Tripoli seeking support from Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi; and 4) tried to con other NATO nations that share in the rent payments into putting more pressure on London. What made the whole thing so familiar was that Mintoff had followed essentially the same script a year...