Word: evict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That was just what they wanted in Connecticut, too, where Republican Congressman Thomas Meskill will evict a Democrat from Hartford's gilt-domed statehouse after 16 years of one-party rule. Meskill, a former mayor of New Britain, came across forcefully on television. His opponent, Representative Emilio ("Mim") Daddario, who was once mayor of Middletown, "went through the campaign like a mummy," as one politico put it. Meskill accused the Democrats of doing nothing to curb drug abuse, which a specially commissioned G.O.P. state poll called the top issue on voters' minds. He capitalized on the $200 million...
...capitalist pig. He publicly criticized Mayor William Dyke in May 1969, when police broke up an unauthorized block party, touching off a three-day riot. Nevertheless, confronted by squatters, he dutifully took the law-and-order route -with unhappy results. When he sought a court order to evict them, he was turned down because he lacked an adequate description of his tenants or their names so that police could carry out the order...
...vast majority of students." Radical domination on campus will continue, the jury said, until citizens and the campus community "take a strong stand." The jury added: "The time has come to detach from university society those who persist in violent behavior. Expel the troublemakers without fear or favor. Evict from the campus those persons bent on disorder...
...plans for the relocation housing, which Harvard has promised tobuild before it begins to evict, are still in the talking stage among University and tenant negotiators...
...police had announced that the 300 acres of green woodland was sealed off to all visitors, yet they made no attempt to prevent the thousands of invaders from reaching the site on foot. The authorities impeded the delivery of food and curtailed sanitary services, but made no move to evict the celebrators. They ignored the pot-pushing, the open lovemaking, the unblushing nudity of pond swimmers and sun bathers. The line between strict law enforcement and pragmatic reality was conveniently blurred. "What can they do?" asked one contented camper. "We're all staying...