Get Out of Town!

She was banned from tryouts for our school’s play, and she was sent to detention for two recesses. I Can Make This Promise

Then they left once more, so she could think of a plan to banish the witch. How to Disappear Completely

What if the Habsburg nobles in Prague had a trampoline outside their window, so when they were defenestrated they just kept bouncing back up to the window, yelling, “Boi-oi-oi-oinnng...boi-oi-oi-oinnng...” to the Bohemians inside?
– The Washington Post

When the Nazis came looking for Jews to deport, all the people who lived on the streets found places to hide. Prisoner B-3087

The magistrate simply deposed my father, thus ending the Mandela family chieftainship. Long Walk to Freedom

He ruled over the other Titans until his son Zeus dethroned him and seized the power for himself. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

They tried to peck at her, seeking to dislodge her, or distract her enough to make her fall. Redwall

We picked a UN refugee camp near Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where many of my people have been displaced due to conflict in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise

Supernovae violently eject much of their stellar mass into space. Cosmos

What happens to these people denied housing assistance or evicted from their homes? The New Jim Crow

Native American men and women were both largely excluded from voting in settlers’ elections because settlers didn’t recognize them as citizens. 1919 The Year That Changed America

The Jews excommunicated him because he advocated a pantheistic doctrine, something like the “allness of God,” or “God in everything.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X

My sister explained that what he meant was that Ellie would be exiled to England. Everything Sad Is Untrue

A “repatriate” was someone returning to his native country, while an “expatriate” was someone withdrawing himself from his native country. A Place to Belong

Now, there was a rule in my school which gave teachers authority to expel a pupil who was absent from school for over a month without a solid reason. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography

Trying to prevent Fischer’s escape to Iceland, various agencies in the United States accelerated their pursuit of Bobby, putting more pressure on Japan to extradite him. Endgame

Russo told reporters he was going to turn his attention to the effort to impeach President Nixon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War

Later I learned what had happened: the writers of the club had decided to “use” me to oust the painters, who were party members, from the leadership of the club. Black Boy

The Rosenberg trial sparked fears inside the United States that living throughout the country were communist sympathizers plotting to overthrow the government. Hidden Figures

I thought about that day at the Kennedy Space Center, and then how I’d removed Thomas from the picture. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence

Clouds of tear gas obscure the scene as troopers rout the marchers and drive them back over the bridge. Because They Marched

Days after that meeting, Xi sacked the two top generals of the PLA Rocket Force, an elite unite overseeing the nation’s arsenal of nuclear and ballistic missiles, sparking concerns of a broader purge in the military.
– CNN

Georges Laforgue is still on the Literature and Languages faculty at Hampden, where his enemies have still not managed to supplant him. The Secret History

Now that the dictatorship had been toppled, he had become interested in his country's fate again. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents