Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worried. El Khoury is a natural worrier. In the fall of 1944 he had plenty of troubles-his wife's illness, his scapegrace son's escapades, his efforts to get rid of the French (who had jailed him for opposing them...
...next four years, Evelyn laboriously got rid of all her hard-won vocal habits, learned to bleat so expensively that half a dozen of her consonants will now pay for all the singing lessons she ever took. At 25, she has developed as tricky a style and as tony a claque as any of those quick bright things called "songstresses." Last week Songstress Knight had clinched her success by beginning (at $2,000 a week) her biggest radio series, as Tony Martin's opposite attraction on his new Texaco show...
Again & again SCAP had told the Japanese Government to get rid of the Control Association system which perpetuated zaibatsu (big business) domination of the economy but had not been able to raise Japan's production above one-third of the 1930 level. Last week when, in the face of impending economic disaster, the rubbery Yoshida Government again evaded the Control Association issue, MacArthur even threatened to seek advice from the four-power Allied Control Council...
That old country was utterly unlike the prairie farm-a farm so big that the old man had never learned to work it. But his big son, Pier, putting all his strength into the job, got rid of the mortgage that first bumper year. And Nertha bore him a boy. Pier bought a 1919 Buick. He was so sure of himself that he laughed at the county agent who wanted him to try contour plowing. Nertha coaxed him to learn how to read and write, but Pier cared more about breeding heifers...
...rent urban housing, slum clearance, rural housing and federal aid for private projects. In the next four years, five million new homes will be constructed under this program at a federal outlay of $150 million a year. Besides helping the veteran's problem, it will go some distance to rid the nation of the six million dwelling units which the 1940 census showed were so sub-standard that it said children ought not to be brought up in them...