Word: ousted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report [April 5] on the Dalton School was most unfair. Instead of heaping snide ridicule on the school and Mr. Donald Barr, its headmaster, you should have reported that a group of trustees, in utter disregard of the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the parents, has attempted to oust Mr. Barr. The P.T.A. removed Dr. Myron Hofer, the only representative of the parents on the board of trustees, from his P.T.A. offices because he failed to in form the parents fairly and openly of his and the board's actions. The parents will continue to do all that...
Putnam urged the Faculty to vote against the proposal because, he said, it is "an attempt to stampede the Faculty into a mood of repression to purge the Faculty of me and those who think like me." Putnam had earlier charged that the Administration was seeking to oust him because he was a member of the Progressive Labor Party...
...alliance has no common program but to oust Mrs. Gandhi. Its candidates portray her as a dictator and imply that she is a reincarnation of Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, who wears a necklace of human skulls and bears dripping severed heads in her hands. Says Mrs. Gandhi of her opponents: "I want to get rid of poverty. All they want to do is get rid of Indira...
...Youngish Reformers 0. The oldsters in the party caucus defeated several moves: to 1) set an age limit of 70 for committee chairmen; 2) restrict them to eight years of service; 3) elect a Northern liberal instead of a Southern conservative to the Ways and Means Committee; 4) oust one incumbent chairman. Yet the ferment itself indicated the changing tone in the tradition-minded House of Representatives; the seniority system is no longer sacrosanct...
...Southerner, McMillan acts, in effect, as the unelected mayor of a black city. The D.C. Committee has long been disliked by black Washingtonians. Therefore the reformers hoped to replace McMillan with Michigan's Charles Diggs Jr., 48, a black. The vote was 126 to retain McMillan. 96 to oust him, with two ballots for Diggs disqualified. Hence the chairman's plurality was only...