Word: expels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other side of the barricade, a mob formed after sundown in the dusty street. A loudspeaker blared again and again: 'Let us expel the Communist Supervisory Commission and regain the price of our lost blood...
...federal Chamber of Deputies, Roberto Adolfo Carena, announced that, as a lifelong Catholic of "sincere conviction." he was resigning from the Chamber in protest against the government's anti-church measures. The Peronista majority, flustered and angry, refused to accept Carena's resignation, instead voted to expel him for "lack of faith, loyalty and solidarity...
...Washington last week, 20 A.F.L. and C.I.O. leaders, who plan to merge forces at a joint convention next December, agreed on a new constitution (but not a new name). The constitution takes a strong stand against racial discrimination, provides powers to expel any corrupt or Communist-dominated affiliate. The greatest change, however, came in the preamble...
...more likely as the reported date for it (April 5) approached, devoted the week to a teasing demonstration that at 80 he is still the most dashing performer on the political stage. Aneurin Bevan, Labor's unruly Welshman, cockily sat by while the leaders who were going to expel him split apart and handed him a reprieve...
...Korea, said Knowland, the U.N. "seriously compromised" its moral position. It showed "alacrity to act against a small aggressor [North Korea]" but "procrastination in acting against a large aggressor [Red China]." When Russia supported the aggressors, "no steps were taken to expel the Soviet Union from the United Nations." Russia "in effect defied the United Nations to do anything about it. They did nothing." Although "the terms of the Korean armistice have been violated on numerous occasions," Knowland charged, the U.N. has been "impotent and paralyzed" in enforcement of the armistice...