Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blood & Guts was in Dutch again. Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., Military Governor of Bavaria, had made a fool of himself and had reflected on the whole U.S. Army by holding a press conference and pooh-poohing efforts to rid Germany of Nazis (TIME...
...retake, blamed the whole thing on his unfortunate "analogies" and newspapers' "startling headlines." Then, chafing under his orders, he declared: 1) that what he had said should not "reflect on my commanding officer, General Eisenhower"; 2) that "so vile a thing as Naziism" could not be got rid of overnight. The net implication was that he was right the first time (when he had compared "this Nazi thing" to "a Democratic and Republican election fight...
...begins to appear that we shall never be rid of the adolescent problem in American society. From the immensely funny "Brother Rat" to "Mr. Cooper's Left Hand," almost every possible joke about the teen-age boy or girl has been invented or exhumed. The wear and tear on such plots and gag-situations has been beyond belief, but the new show at the Wilbur shows the-horrible position in a new light...
Researchers looked hard and long for a drug to cure tuberculosis. When it appeared hopeless to get rid of the germs without hurting the patient, interest in the search slowed up. Then the discovery of sulfanilamide dramatized the fact that chemicals can fight bacteria safely-not by killing them, but by hampering their vital processes. The search for a tuberculosis cure was revivified. No one has the answer yet, but new clues are turned up every week. Recent ones...
...Richardson concluded by calling on the women of Memphis to "rid our city of selfish, heartless creatures...