Word: dispossessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Macao subsists merely by sufferance of the Chinese, who can starve the place and dispossess the Portuguese whenever they please. This obliges the governor to behave with great circumspection and carefully to avoid every circumstance that may give offense to the Chinese...
Removal of "other University agencies" from the Memorial Hall basement to make room for extra-curricular activities would presumably dispossess the Psychological and Psycho-Acoustic Laboratories recently moved to quarters there...
...Banker Edward Arnold, Doctor Lionel Barrymore, Judge Lewis Stone). She owns a piece of property containing an ancient oak tree, which happens to be the home of her friends, the Wee People. Her three selfish, unimaginative guardians want to get rid of the property, uproot the tree. And dispossess the pixies? Not as long as Margaret and her sweet old drunken manservant (Thomas Mitchell) can prevent...
...conservative Roman Catholic Bishop James A. Griffin of Springfield, vehemently agreed. Said Bishop Griffin: "We want to know what we're paying for. . . . Thousands of [Dr. Stoddard's] future students believe in the objective validity of [original sin and hell]. . . . He will evidently try to dispossess his charges of their feeble-mindedness." Said the Bishop: the new president should make a profession of faith. Replied Dr. Stoddard, who will not take office until next July: "We need more religion rather than more theologies. . . . Frankly, I should be much happier if the Bishop and his group read the whole...
...embittering to fight the "superior race" myth halfway round the world, only to see its fundamental tenets being flagrantly promoted at home. It would seem more in accord with justice to deport and dispossess not Japanese-Americans, but all members of the Japanese Exclusion League...