Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reaction. In Coffeyville, Kans., a taxpayer walked into the county treasurer's office to find out what he owed. When he was told, he ran away screaming, eventually got rid of a bee that had gotten inside his shirt...
...everybody is trying desperately to figure out what will happen next. Much depends on whether the generals can inspire new confidence among the men. The task falls mainly to strong, silent General Auchinleck who, though lacking the warm personality of Wavell, has worked wonders in the last year, getting rid of brass hats and teaching officers to take their kid gloves off. Only a few people think that Egypt is as good as lost; many more are pinning their faith on the Tommies' renowned ability to fight best with their backs to the wall. The official view is that...
...lack of U.S. export licenses. The Rios regime was turning out more Rightist than they had hoped. Senator Fernando Alessandri Rodriguez had whipped behind the President the full support of the Rightist Liberal Party. Semi-Fascist Falangists had begun to appear in key posts. Rightists were trying to get rid of Socialist ministers, one of the most pro-U.S. groups in Chile...
...deep patience of the colored peoples is at an end. Everywhere among them there is the same resolve for freedom and equality that white Americans and British have, but it is a grimmer resolve, for it includes the determination to be rid of white rule and exploitation and white race prejudice, and nothing will weaken this will...
...pouch of tobacco for his pains. The State of New York got 10? an acre for the land. Even so, for 116 years it was a bad investment. The mine went through the wringer many times, closed down in 1914. One trouble was the cost of getting rid of the titanium in the ore, for nobody wanted titanium then...