Word: expellable
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...demand to expel the Moslems from the Holy Land throbbed in the conscience of Christian Europe through the 12th century, and for many years thereafter. Few places in the West escaped the eloquence of the Crusader preachers. Writes Historian Runciman, describing a sermon of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, the most famous of them: "Very soon his audience was under his spell. Men began to cry for Crosses-'Crosses, give us Crosses!' It was not long before all the [cloth] that had been prepared to sew into Crosses was exhausted; and Saint Bernard flung off his own outer garments...
Brazil is trying to strengthen her government by passing laws restricting ownership of certain industries to Brazilians. An example of this is a law passed by the House and now before the Senate that would expel all foreign oil producing industries...
...Spectator also took offense at the CRIMSON article. The newsapper stated editorially, "The report abounds with snobbish depreciations of Columbia University. . . We wish to petition Harvard not to expel us from the Ivy League...
Iran's Parliament listened to hotheaded demands that Premier Mossadegh expel the U.S. Mission which helps train the 140,000-man Iranian army. Mossadegh let it be known that he might prefer Yankee dollars to Yankee soldiers...
When the Massachusetts Medical Society bade Dr. Robert E. Lincoln resign for treating everything from sinus trouble to cancer with whiffs of his unproved baoteriophages, Lincoln refused and promised "a damned good fight" (TIME, March 17). Last week Dr. Lincoln gave up the fight. Possibly forestalling a move to expel him, he resigned with a blast at the society: "Unprofessional, undemocratic, arbitrarily unfair and un-American...