Word: expels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, the house and senate unanimously passed a resolution against Addington and his kind. The resolution, which Governor Beauford Jester promised to sign, "authorized, instructed and empowered" the presidents of state colleges and universities to investigate and expel "all or any persons found to be disloyal to this nation." It was not exactly a law, explained House Speaker Durwood Manford, "but stronger than a suggestion." Cried Texas University Footballer "Peppy" Blount, a member of the house and one of the chief backers of the bill: "Academic freedom, huh? The only isms we want in Texas are Texasism and Americanism...
...words were polite, but the threat was evident. If Havenga does not abide by the rules in the future, the Fund has the power to expel South Africa or at least freeze the $15 million on which South Africa is eligible to draw this year. There was a greater threat. The Fund, controlled by the U.S., might persuade the Export-Import Bank to turn thumbs down on South Africa's application for a $100 million loan. In any case, the Fund had no intention of being pressured into boosting the price of gold...
...justice was swift-he could expel or cane offenders with the same sort of severity that has made Etonians tremble for five centuries. But he sometimes showed a compassion all his own. "That was a very understandable transgression," he would say to an offender, blinking sympathetically behind his spectacles. Then he would add: "One thousand lines," and send the boy to write out his punishment...
Nevertheless Oleg Grabar '50, in this country only two months, contended that the election results really reflect the sentiment of the French worker. The "ouvrier" turning to the head of French wartime resistance has done so, he argues, feeling that Do Gaulle is "the only force who can expel the Communists from France...
When a miner breathes finely divided silica (quartz), the sharp microscopic particles, lodge in the little sacs at the ends of the air tubes in his lungs. The irritation forms scar tissue, whose stiffness keeps the sacs from collapsing, as they normally do, to expel air from the lungs. Breathing becomes harder & harder until the miner has to use all his strength merely to keep his blood oxygenated. Bacterial infections, including tuberculosis, often add to his misery...