Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your neighbor's lush America First garden, which, you exultingly perceive, is filled with all manner of obnoxious weeds. Surely you know enough about horticulture to realize that weeds grow rankest where the soil is most fertile. Every good gardener, and your neighbor is one, eventually gets rid of his weeds, often to the chagrin of his early-season critics...
...itself. The peddler, however, would not let him stop, but dragged him along by his leash. The sentry, who was a great lover of animals, felt angry; he ordered the peddler to let the dog do what it wanted. The poor animal, which was evidently in difficulties, finally got rid of a silvery metal tube. Since the sentry had never heard that dogs were accustomed to excrete such articles, he was struck with amazement...
Following in the footsteps of Rome's elder Cato, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, speaking at the University of Michigan yesterday urged that nothing short of obliteration would rid the world of the evils of Naziism...
...alleged German proposals were the items that the present German government would be replaced and that occupied countries would be restored to their prior status, in return for certain concessions to Germany. Americans who have supposed that it is necessary to go to war in order to get rid of Hitler and bring liberties to subjugated countries would be interested to learn more of these mysterious transactions. They would like to know by whom they were "exploded" and to what extent if at all it was considered appropriate to consult our government. Is it perhaps assumed that decisions of this...
...Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda flickers. Miss Dunne's ultimately successful attempt to get rid of her "unfinished business," which in this case is her still unrequited love for her city-slicker boyfriend, constitutes what might be called the remainder of the plot...