Word: oust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...40th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark school- desegregation decision, the Justice Department went to court to oust Hulond Humphries, the Alabama high school principal who made headlines earlier this year by reportedly trying to stop interracial dating at his school's prom. Justice accused the school district of engaging in discriminatory practices...
...think the U.S. should send forces to oust the military rulers in Haiti and install Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the democratically elected president...
...South Africa's changing destiny. "I think there will be more explosions and more actions if the government ignores the just claim of my people who demand some land." The fiery rhetoric inspired some of the 300 khaki-clad men and pistol-packing women to rough up and then oust a black American reporter attending the otherwise desultory rally. The motive behind all the violence: a whites-only homeland...
...what is the fifth gospel? It is the Gospel of Thomas, which church fathers deemed unacceptable because it contained ideas of the heretical Gnostic sects. Indeed, the book ends with Jesus rebuking Peter for trying to oust a woman named Mary from the company of disciples. "Females are not worthy of life," says Peter. Jesus replies, "Look, I shall guide her to make her a male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter heaven's kingdom." Three sentences in Thomas survive the seminar's judgment...
...swim, shoot or read compasses as well as whites. Mundy has apologized and asked to meet with the Congressional Black Caucus. Nevertheless, the Navy Secretary has removed Mundy from a study he was heading on -- ironically -- the status of minorities in the Corps. The White House is set to oust him if he makes one more mistake...