Word: expellable
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...glaring as Powell's misconduct has been, punishing him is no easy matter. The House has the right to expel him from its ranks, and certainly expulsion is not too severe a measure in light of his treatment of the courts. Still, banishing Powell from the Capitol would probably create more problems than it solved. No Congressman has ever been expelled for contempt of court before, and such a move would doubtless be construed by Powell's Harlem district as a vicious effort to deprive Negroes of their most effective and powerful congressional spokesman. Powell would return home a martyr...
...swearing in of another (TIME, Dec. 9). Moreover, for all of Congress' traditional reluctance to criticize its members, Congressmen are under growing pressure from constituents to do something about Powell. Brooklyn Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, for one, considers Powell "as obnoxious as a crocodile," but thinks that to expel him - which the House could do by a two-thirds majority - would be "foolish." Powell, whose constituents elected him to a twelfth term in November with 74% of the vote, would, says Celler, "be elected all over again...
...distinguished educator, Carmichael was no match for the segregationists when, in 1956, Autherine Lucy, a Negro, tried to enroll in all-white 'Bama; he tried to obey the federal court order to admit her, but was forced by student riots and an adamant aboard of trustees to expel her, after which he resigned, became a consultant to the Ford Foundation...
...Bills. In its inherent madness, apartheid breeds more apartheid. Recent government edicts have ordered professional associations to expel African doctors and lawyers and have imposed segregation on charitable institutions. Before the current session of Parliament is a bill to further restrict the voting rights of the Cape Coloreds by allowing the government to select the candidates for their four white representatives in Parliament...
...carried out during World War II. Nailed to the cross by wrists and ankles, the victim, in a desperate struggle for breath, alternately shifted his weight from arms to legs until he slumped down utterly exhausted. With the body weight resting on the arms, the diaphragm could no longer expel carbon dioxide from the lungs, and thus the man died...