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Word: expel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest Bevin, the bull elephant of British labor, last week sat bulkily silent, beadily watchful, in the back row at a caucus of Parliament's Laborite members. The proposal: to expel from the Party his homonym-pink, grizzled Welshman Aneurin Bevan. The crime: Laborite Be-van's revolt against Labor Minister Bevin in the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bevin Y. Bevan | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

...Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923) believed that society consists of an elite and a mass, the society's health depending on what he termed "The circulation of the elites." The elite must be "open"-must be able to expel Lions when Foxes are needed, must be able to smell out Foxes among the Rabbits and assimilate them into the elite. Such free circulation is a condition of intelligent government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Is Democracy Possible? | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...interfere with the uterine contractions which expel the baby, as other anesthetics often do. In about one-third of the cases-a high proportion-labor progressed so smoothly that forceps were not needed for delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Anesthetic for Childbirth | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...Navy Secretaries Stimson and Knox meant what they said in an Order of the Day on the opening of China's sixth year at war: "The Army and Navy of the U.S. salute their comrades-in-arms in China, and join with them in the firm determination to expel the aggressor from every foot of Chinese soil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Chennault's Antidote | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

...just don't believe we should expel all the Japanese aliens or Japanese-Americans because some of their number are disloyal any more than we should intern all those of German parentage because a portion of them belong to the Bund. I see no reason for falling victim to the racist doctrines of the fascists. From the observations I've made, I'm scarcely alone in taking this attitude. I can confidently say that there is no great cry for martial law on the West Coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 16, 1942 | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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