Word: oustings
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...place "to turn out men of adventurous spirit, unfettered by tradition." No one was surprised that he administered a ticklish job with complete fair-mindedness. He took both radical students and faculty members, notably Methodism's Harry F. Ward, in his stride, refused to oust Ward. Said...
...Germany is finished, leaving the U.S. to fight Japan alone; 4) in that case, the U.S. will be helpless to intervene as its former Allies divide up the world at the peace table; 5) the failure of Britain's 2,000,000-man army in India to oust 60,000 Japs from Burma already indicates Britain's lack of determination...
...Senate, unable (or as yet unwilling) to rise up and oust Donald Nelson as WPBoss, this week passed a bill which would rip away a substantial half of his domain, and hand it over to an entirely new kind of czar-one created by legislation, not by Presidential fiat...
Prime Minister Jan Christiaan Smuts managed only by a bare majority to oust the Hertzog Government and lead South Africa into war in 1939. But his Government was committed not to send troops outside the continental borders. Last week, by a vote of 75-to-49 in the Assembly and 21-to-6 in the Senate, Smuts obtained Parliament's permission to have South African volunteers participate in the invasion of Europe. He smiled happily when Senator Sarel François Alberts, an Anglophobe veteran of the Boer War, announced that despite his age (70) he was ready...
...every part of Teheran Axis agents egged on the people, sending them down to Parliament to agitate for bread. Orators harangued the crowd, worked it up with cries to oust the government. By evening the mob was marching down the main thoroughfare, Stamboul Street, ready for physical violence...