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Word: expels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill is designed to prevent such "laxity," for it would require college presidents to expel Communists and Communist sympathizers. "If this is done in a reasonable time," Dorgan explained, the state would then conduct a "proper, constitutional investigation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorgan Backs Bill to Oust Communists From College | 1/29/1953 | See Source »

...head rises, the weight of the abdominal organs pulls down the patient's diaphragm. This expands his chest cavity, which his paralyzed muscles can no longer do, and pulls air into the lungs. When the foot of the bed rises, the abdominal organs press against the diaphragm and expel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of John Kidder | 1/26/1953 | See Source »

...months, the Senate subcommittee on Privileges and Elections fitfully investigated Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joe McCarthy and Connecticut's Democratic Senator William Benton. Reasons for the investigation were 1) Benton's resolution to expel McCarthy from the Senate on the ground of unfitness, and 2) McCarthy's resolution to dispose of Benton in like manner. Last week, the subcommittee turned in its report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: McCommitteeism | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Give Us Crosses! | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brazil's Delegate Cites Dollar Need | 11/18/1952 | See Source »

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