Word: expellable
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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...
...Then, following Gamel Abdel Nasser’s rise to power, Wahed’s entire community was uprooted. A 1956 proclamation signed by the Egyptian Minister of Religious Affairs said, “all Jews are Zionists and enemies of the state,” and promised to expel them. Wahed had to leave his British school, the pyramids and the Nile that he loved, and Cairo, his native home. He and his family fled to Europe as stateless refugees, forced to begin life anew...
...faced this threat before, in 1991, when it battled Iraqi forces to expel Iraq from Kuwait; that time Baghdad kept its nastiest weapons sheathed. But the Iraqis have never confronted what the U.S. military has in store for them should war come again. The last conflict introduced the world to the "smart" bomb, when Gulf War commanders narrated videotapes showing precision-guided munitions taking out discrete buildings they had targeted. Today's smart bombs make the old ones look dim-witted. What's more, newer smart bombs are far cheaper and easier to use, so there would...
...Qaeda, they dramatize what could become a larger factor working against U.S. efforts to depose Saddam Hussein through military force. "This most recent operation is consistent with the primary goal that Al Qaeda set for itself from the very first moment of its confrontation with the U.S., namely, to expel U.S. forces from the Arabian Peninsula," says Satie Noureddin of Beirut's daily As Safir newspaper. "The timing leaves no room for doubt that U.S. plans for war on Iraq cannot remain as they are without further adjustments...
...nearly 1 a.m., Blickstead tires of swaying. He nears the door as if to begin planning his exit strategy. After 15 minutes of patient door-side chit-chat, the human barricade around the door dissipates and it seems that this steaming, stinking party womb might actually expel Blickstead back into the cool night air from whence he came...