Word: expel
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...hawk during the Persian Gulf crisis and clashed frequently with Powell, who was cautious about using the military to expel Iraq from Kuwait. But Cheney never strayed far from the official line coming out of the White House. He asked early on after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait whether the U.S. should consider overthrowing Saddam Hussein, but abandoned the idea quickly. It fell to Cheney to secure support from Arab leaders for pushing Saddam out of Kuwait, support gained with the promise that the U.S. had no intention of marching to Baghdad. Like the other principal players in that...
Gladden J. Pappin ’04 errs when he asserts that condemning Harvard’s actions in 1920 to expel homosexuals “is to declare that the College should not attempt to maintain any level of moral decency whatever” (Letters, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality,” Dec. 9). This is a result of Pappin’s unquestioning confidence in his interpretation of “traditional morality,” an interpretation, which as his language indicates, ultimately rests on repression, discipline and the silencing of other viewpoints...
...years after the end of the Iraq-Iran war, Hussein launched a massive invasion of Kuwait, once again risking his regime based on what proved to be very flawed assumptions. Initially, Hussein incorrectly guessed that the United States would be unwilling or unable to garner enough international support to expel the Iraqis from Kuwait. Then, when it became clear during subsequent months that the U.S. had both the will and the capability to destroy his forces, Hussein grossly misjudged the efficacy of his own military, convincing himself that the Iraqi army could fight well enough to produce a bloody stalemate...
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...game’s strategy allows contestants to vote out one player after each round—they often choose to expel either the worst or best contestant, called the “weakest link” or the “strongest link...