Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before Hodgson intervened, Russia had the U.S. and Britain over a barrel. No one seriously believed that Franco was about to go on the warpath, and Gromyko had no constructive proposal on how to get rid of him. But if Stettinius and Cadogan voted tacit aid & comfort to Franco by defeating Gromyko, Russia could use that fact to advance her own ends, from Trieste to Tokyo. If the West continued to do nothing about Franco, it would in crease the chance that his successor will be more Communist than democratic...
...central Alabama each year. I can assure you that the gatherings which I attend are not given over to "Pope-hating." . . . The range of conversations includes: the essential need of church unity in support of the United Nations, furthering the cause of industrial peace, strengthening racial understanding and getting rid of racial antagonisms...
...warnings that a separate Pakistan would be poor and backward, Jinnah answers: "Why are the Hindus worrying so much about us? Let us stew in our own juice if we are willing. . . . [The Hindus] would be getting rid of the poorest parts of India, so they ought to be glad. The economy would take care of itself in time...
Thirty million other Britons, straining to shake off the psychological soot of war, were set for a whopping vacation binge. Brighton, finally rid of barbed wire and pillboxes, was triumphantly ready for the Easter trade. Yachts and motorboats, many of them veterans of Dunkirk, were fought over by sea-hungry landlubbers. Butlin's popular seaside camps, the workingman's country clubs, had more customers than they could handle. While most people wanted to get out of the city, some provincials wanted to get into it: Thomas Cook & Son offered an eight-guinea ($34) junket to London, complete with...
...into noncompetitive markets. ¶ Restricting production. ¶ Fixing prices on matches, match machinery and match chemicals. ¶ Suppressing the manufacture of new "everlasting" or re-ignitable matches. The U.S. defendants, headed by big Diamond Match, were told (and agreed) to divest themselves of each other's stock, get rid of interlocking directorates...