Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unitarian. Dr. Aurelia Henry Reinhardt, Moderator: "The Unitarians have always admired the Samaritan who bound up the wounds of the stranger set upon by robbers, but today they work to rid the Jericho Road of thieves...
Although dangerous if used unskillfully, judo can be a painless method of getting rid of opponents quickly. No casualties have yet been reported from the class...
William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray turned 72, foreseeing inflation, advised city folk to get rid of their paper money, move to the country, can fruit and vegetables, and bury them in the ground to "have something to eat when the trouble comes...
This, then, in its simplest forms, would be the strategy of a Pacific war. The outcome would depend on whether our raiders could cripple the Japanese merchant marine (of which there is very little to spare) before the Japanese fleet could rid the area of our raiders. And the whole thing would be immensely complicated by the demands of our already marginal Atlantic Fleet. Such a war might be slightly in our favor due to the fact that Japan's merchant marine is barely enough to keep her supplied, and it would not take, a great deal of raiding...
...Continued effort to rid the republic of subversive interests. Requested was the recall of Eric Cerjack-Boyna, German Embassy attache, described as a "most sinister" influence on Arnulfo Arias. Pro-German stooges of the deposed President were jailed. Semimilitary youth groups were dissolved...