Word: expel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tests use middle-class references that the slum child does not understand; his low score then plunks him into the slow group. He is repelled from reading by fatuous primers about "nice" children who seem laughable even in the suburbs, let alone in Harlem. Harried principals stand ready to expel him; guidance counselors are reluctant to encourage him too much. "Be realistic," they say. "Do what you can do. Try the post office...
...Petrofina. E.N.I. landed a $13 million contract to build the only refinery in the Congo, and the four rivals will have to buy from it to supply their gas stations. Their severe protests have so irritated the Congo government that Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula last week threatened to expel two complaining Shell and Petrofina executives...
...leaders of Africa's new black nations observed Family Day in their own manner, by trying to expel South Africa from what is still occasionally known as the family of nations. Later this month, black leaders will propose sanctions against South Africa, and possibly its expulsion from the U.N. The U.S., while violently disapproving of apartheid, will probably abstain in any vote on the grounds that expelling all countries whose domestic policies are reprehensible could pretty quickly destroy...
...James Meredith to the University of Mississippi last fall, has apparently not abandoned his intention to make Mr. Meredith's stay at the university as short and unhappy as possible. The Governor's latest ploy, still in the discussion stage, is to ask the Federal courts for permission to expel Mr. Meredith for having violated a university directive against "inflammatory remarks" by students...
...rebellion. One soul mingles with another like smoke." But in the West, "every life has its own special, if invisible, garden plot. . . . A man stands alone between the tended flower beds and the little porticoes of a house from which no one, by law and equity, is entitled to expel him. He stands alone, by himself; the soft blue air is around him; he is unencumbered on all sides, like a statue. This is the only way he knows how to be; only in this way can he be big or little, crooked or straight, good...