Word: rid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bodies were dug from the ruins, laid in piles for burial. But the broiling sun soon made the stench so unbearable that thousands of corpses had to be thrown into the quake fissures to get rid of them. Their water mains and pumping stations smashed, many parched survivors scooped their drinks from dirty ditches and contaminated wells. Puckish and unsated, the elements drove icy winds down from the Andes, and on the winds rode storm clouds which dropped on the shelterless, part-injured, part-naked, part-diseased population one of the most violent rainstorms Chile has ever...
Nazi intervention in Africa is not very likely at present, Salvemini believes, but will become a reality on the day Hitler has rid himself of the "Russian menace." As soon as Germany can afford to remove its forces from the eastern frontier, "France-Italian relations will reach a critical point...
...thought McKesson & Robbins was being badly managed, asked him to look into it. Mr. Catchings was told by President Coster that the wholesale drug departments, which did the bulk of the company's business, had got their assets frozen. Coster proposed a stockholders' equity receivership to get rid of the wholesalers, but Mr. Catchings talked him out of that. Instead, Coster persuaded the directors to hire Mr. Catchings at $5,000 a month as chairman of an operations committee, with the understanding that he was to have nothing to do with operations. His job was to check...
...wares apparently was established. He was released, it was reported, after signing a statement, drawn up by Colonel Apted, that he would not show up at Harvard again. This was no reflection on the quality of Goer's goods; it was merely in line with the policy to rid the dormitories of salesman...
...Presidents of the U. S. for many years had a good method of getting rid of any inconvenient politician: to make him Governor-General of the Philippines. Like a cat looking at a President, Homer Martin, whom John L. Lewis still tolerates as head of the United Automobile Workers, last week gave jobs to five U. A. W. vice presidents...