Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worried, Busta huffed about Manley's "Communist monsters," then grew indifferent and plaintive by turns. "If I am not returned," he told the House disdainfully, "I will retire and get rid of all this bother, because I am rich...
SECOND, work in your own community to get rid of Communists and Communist influences, whether in the school system or anywhere else...
...Administration's achievements of the week was to kick Mississippi's ranting John Rankin off the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Administration leaders ruled him off because he was going to be chairman of another committee (Veterans' Affairs)-a technicality specially thought up to get rid of him. Rankin was not surprised. Fortnight ago he grumbled: "The word seems to have come down from Moscow to keep me off." On another technicality (that all committee members be lawyers), Louisiana's F. Edward Hebert, a fellow Dixiecrat of Rankin's, was also unseated. With...
...embarrassed the President politically by his stand on Palestine. Forrestal plugged aggressively in Cabinet sessions for his policies, sometimes on subjects which the President didn't think concerned him. It was no secret that Harry Truman, while recognizing his ability as a Cabinet officer, would like to get rid of him in good time-perhaps after the military budget was settled...
Other papers editorialized the same way, not only in France, but in Belgium, Switzerland and, to a lesser degree, in The Netherlands. Their common sentiment: the vast majority of people feel an angry urge to be rid of war scares; they hope for a renewed conciliatory gesture...