Word: ostraca
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Ostracism, as it originated in ancient Greece, meant that the citizens cast votes on ostraca (potsherds or tiles) on the question of whether someone in their midst was so disruptive or so loathsome to the community that he ought to be invited out of town - exiled for a period of 10 years. The undesirable one would lose no property, or otherwise be harmed. He would simply be told, for the general good, to get lost for a decade...
...thoroughly bipartisan. Let the Clintons be the first to go. American politics will not be healthy until they are purged from the system. Issue exit visas to Trent Lott and Tom DeLay, to Dick Armey, to the ancient and awful Strom Thurmond and the odious Jesse Helms. Let the ostraca fall upon the bombastic charlatan Jesse Jackson, upon Henry Hyde and Maxine Waters, upon Barbara Boxer and Orrin Hatch...
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