Word: expels
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Fellow Congressmen raged. Abashed for once in his life, Barreto Pinto took refuge in a libel suit, charged that Photographer Manzon had used montage tricks, had promised to snap him only from the waist up. As Barreto Pinto's own Labor Party prepared to expel him if he lost his case, he beat them to the punch by resigning...
...Gibun, near the German frontier, the Reds threatened to expel all Polish settlers favoring a no vote...
Goateed, greying, ace Soviet diplomat Jacob Surits has a habit of popping up in key spots. He was at Geneva in 1939 when the League of Nations prepared to expel Russia for the war with Finland. As Soviet Ambassador to France in 1940, Surits was declared persona non grata for cabling home harsh criticism of "Anglo-French warmongers." Last week the U.S.S.R. had named him their first Ambassador to Brazil, where the Communists had rolled up an unexpected 600,000-odd votes in the recent elections...
...actual people who wander along the roads will be harmless-defeated and broken men, dazed women, children who have already forgotten the Nazi salute. But the Poles and Czechs who expel them will be thinking of the past, and of the future. The German minorities in eastern Europe were not harmless, either as guests or, later, as masters...
Author Maurras himself had predicted: "L'Académie est trop grande dame pour m'exclure-The Academy is too great a lady to expel me." Maurras was right. The 20 Academicians put their heads together. Immortal Maurras, they reasoned, had lost his "national dignity." Therefore, his colleagues gravely decided, they did not need to expel him: his seat was already vacant. Then, with greater haste than they had ever shown, the 20 Immortals turned back to the pressing problems of the word...