Word: expeller
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American political cartooning, in the doldrums for years while the British were better at it, is at a high level now. You get the impression that the top cartoonists would expel from their midst anyone who had to label a figure "Mondale." Mike Peters of the Dayton Daily News speaks of Mondale's "wonderful beak." Most cartoonists either exaggerate the dark circles under Mondale's eyes so that he looks like a panda or give him hooded lids that look like split coffee beans. The Washington Post's Herblock suspects that some cartoonists make Mondale "lumpier" than...
...dangerous, I say yes," he boasted to several hundred supporters at a Jerusalem rally. "They say Kahane wants to get rid of the Arabs. Correct. I want to get rid of all the Arabs." As his first act in the Knesset, he vowed, he would propose a bill to expel the 700,000 Arabs who are Israeli citizens, as well as the 1.3 million who live in the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...University of Minnesota, then to teach the subject at a local college. He put his reformist ideas into practice as an officer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but even then he was trimming his sails. The avowed leftist not only dined with bankers, he helped expel his former radical friends from the party as the cold war dawned...
...news is covered as badly as much of the public thinks it is, why doesn't the press clean its own house? Where is its professional responsibility? The difficulty begins with that word professional. Medicine and law, being professions, can expel or censure wrongdoers, even though fraternal coziness makes such action rare. Journalism has no admission standards. A plumber or a hairdresser must pass a test to get a license, but no journalist does, on the grounds that licensing would be abhorrent to the idea of a free and robust press...
...expel South Africa from the territory and achieve independence. Religious groups and political leaders have long sought the release of Toivo, whose name has become synonymous with their struggle. "Toivo," says Kenneth Abrahams of the Namibian Independence Party, "exists as a legendary figure in the minds of most Namibians...