Sentence:  In 1949 the Dixiecrats escaped unscathed after their 1948 rebellion against Harry Truman , and in 1957 , after Congressman Adam Clayton Powell campaigned for Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 , his fellow Democrats did not touch his committee assignments , although they did <WSD>strip</WSD> him temporarily of his patronage . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  take away possessions from someone