Word: ouster
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...dream of causing a large crowd to leave a large chamber in a hurry." At last his dream was realized. The Deputies poured out the chamber's four doors like water past a broken dam. The next day the Deputies were too busy voting Levi Castillo's ouster to bother about finishing the reading of the list...
...pressure intensified, Baltimore's Lawrence Cardinal Shehan, a member of C.U.'s board, declared that Curran should be "restored to his former status." Atlanta's Arch bishop Paul J. Hallinan, another board member, let it be known that he had opposed Curran's ouster. Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing announced that he would not condemn Curran. "He must teach all sides. It makes no sense to appoint people to a university board who know absolutely nothing about running a university...
...People who were raised under liberal Republican and Democratic governors, who became blasé about the benefits of such administrations, and who voted for a change are now being awakened-by the closing of unemployment centers, the attempt to charge college tuition, the ouster of University of California President Kerr, and the appointment in all branches of the state government of conservative businessmen. By his actions, Reagan has redefined the word conservative, thus doing more for the Democratic Party than any ten Democratic speakers could...
...colleagues pointed out that he might have to be brought to trial on charges that he encouraged the abortive Communist coup of 1965. The verdict might well be guilty, and the sentence death. They reminded him that they were already armed with a parliamentary resolution demanding his ouster. At one point, Sukarno broke down and wept, pleading that he be given "a chance to die in my home country." But he recovered next day, presented the triumvirate with unacceptable demands...
Crowding nine wall sections in two adjoining rooms are a series of huge tableaux depicting the tumultuous five years leading up to the ouster of Mexico's last dictator, Porfirio Díaz, in 1911. Arranged in kaleidoscopic profusion are the principal figures, from the greedy courtesans and grasping businessmen who fattened under the Díaz regime to the labor leaders of the 1906 Rio Branco strike and the by-now mythological heroes of the revolution, Zapata, Carranza and Madero...