Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Party orders were to get into any kind of ideological sheep's clothing and stay, if possible, within the folds of C.I.O. With the ax poised over the remaining ten Communist-run unions, needle-nosed Harry intoned his innocence and righteousness in a rasping cockney voice. "To get rid of us, you are going to have to throw us out," he cried. "So now we have reached the point where a trade union, because it disagrees on political matters with the national C.I.O., can be expelled...
...change is welcome in Boston. The city is well-rid of the crowd of mourners in City Hall who waked Curley's political corpse on election night because they had lost their jobs. With a new major, the city can expect new employees who, at least for a time, will stimulate the city's functioning More than that, the voters who elected Hynes can now demand a strict accounting of their tax money...
...week ago today Paul Hoffman, who runs the Economic Cooperation Administration which runs the Marshall Plan, told Europeans that they had better seriously start thinking about getting rid of their trade barriers...
...Japs got away without being touched by U.S. fighters. Even the antiaircraft shooting was wretchedly ineffective . 150 to 0. General Kenney Reports is Kenney's brash, galloping and long-winded explanation of how he all that. Short (5 ft. 6 in.), bristle-haired and scar-cheeked, Kenney ruthlessly rid himself of incompetent brass, re-trained his flyers and lifted them from lethargy to lethal effectiveness in a few short weeks. To replace plane losses, they built spare-parts crates from wrecked machines. Kenney himself invented the low-level parachute-fragmentation bomb and adopted skip bombing as a standard technique...
...result of the edict, all fraternities will get rid of their bars this week. The fraternity system is not expected to survive if the ruling is enforced. Student opinion holds this expectation one of the main reasons behind Wriston's decision to evoke the long-dormant rule...