Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hands on. He is superstitious (no hats on the bed). The nearest he ever comes to telling a dirty joke, either on or off stage, is his standard wheeze about the card from his girl telling him that she has a room with running water ("You better get rid of dat Indian!"). Lou Clayton, who is not given to sentimentality, describes Jimmy as "the sweetest god damned guy that ever lived." And, as his every accent suggests, Jimmy is a considerable democrat and libertarian. In 1938, when he heard of a campaign to clean up his beloved Broadway, Jimmy exploded...
...among jockeys that pressagents call him "College-bred"-and loading trucks in a chemical plant when the boss noticed Ted's wiry, small frame, and wangled him a job as exercise boy at the Greentree Stable. Within three years he had won more than 40 races and got rid of his "bug" (the * after an apprentice jockey's name...
...tall tale about legendary Febold Feboldson, who solved the Indian food problem by blowing the water out of the ponds so that the ducks stuck in the mud. Febold also rid the Midwest of wailing coyotes by importing (from his friend Paul Bunyan) a hundred gross of whimpering whingdings (indescribably mournful creatures who made the coyotes die of grief...
Craig went on to explain that he had achieved all this by getting rid of the present "scanning" principle of television cameras. In translating an image into electrical impulses for broadcasting, the usual television camera "scans" the whole image in no fewer than 240,000 separate impressions. These are recorded separately, in series, all within the space of a 30th of a second. This requires intense lighting, considerable power, and such high speed in transmission that a television broadcast must use a wide band of wave frequencies, room for which can be found only in the high-frequency wave lengths...
...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...