Word: expels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve leaders of the British Commonwealth gathered last week in London from all parts of the world, only one question obsessed editorialists and statesmen: Would they, or would they not, expel South Africa? Canada's John Diefenbaker asked for a Commonwealth declaration on the rights of man. regardless of race. .Ghana's messianic Kwame Nkrumah wanted the issue of apartheid threshed out, said: "If no one else raises the question. I think I shall have to." Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the icy-eyed Prime Minister of South Africa, insisted to newsmen that apartheid (literally, apartness) was simply another name...
...ministers of the great Ukrainian republic, and sheds water like a duck as if nothing has happened. He has caused great harm to the economy of the great republic." The Central Committee agreed that it was everybody's fault but Nikita's, and sternly resolved to expel from the party all those who dreamed up fake figures to conceal the shortfall...
Jack and Bobby Kennedy, from their vantage point on the McClellan labor-management investigating committee, got to know Goldberg for his personally led fights to expel the Teamsters and other unsavory unions from the A.F.L.-C.I.O. During the campaign he was a natural choice as a top labor adviser on the Kennedy team, and last week, when George Meany presented a list of five names of top A.F.L.-C.I.O. men as possibilities, the President-elect rejected them all to pick Arthur Goldberg as his personal choice...
...Blackmail. A Sudeten German born in Czechoslovakia, Frenzel fled to Britain after Munich and returned to Czechoslovakia at the end of the war with the liberating army. At first he tried to work with the coalition government of Eduard Benes. When he saw that the Czechs meant to expel all Sudeten Germans, he gave up and moved to Bavaria. With his clean anti-Nazi record, Frenzel quickly established himself in Bavaria's Socialist Party, reached the Bundestag in 1953. But during his period of dickering with Benes, Frenzel apparently made written commitments that would have ruined him politically with other...
After the war. when Greece tried to grab off large chunks of defeated Turkey, Gursel joined the forces of the late great Kemal Ataturk, helped to expel the Greek armies and to convert Turkey from an Islamic sultanate to a secular republic...