Word: expel
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...