Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime use; war would further disorganize Russia's badly organized productive capacity. Not, as Hitler claimed, to keep Russia from attacking Germany; Hitler knew that Russia would not dare to attack Germany. Germany attacked Russia partly to win anti-Communist support all over the world, more particularly to rid the continent of Europe of the last obstacle to immediate German domination: the Red Army...
...dislodged only by a superior air force. "In order to see things as they are," says he, "Americans need a disintoxication treatment. In order to act with decisive energy, Americans must realize that they have been just as methodically deceived as were the French and English." They must get rid of pacifism, defeatism, treason, isolationism, confusion, the delusion that the end of Hitler would bring real peace...
...Black Shirts: Achille Starace, who had been Chief of Staff of the Fascist Militia since 1939 and for seven years before that was Secretary General of the Fascist Party. By removing him from his post (nothing was said about what had become of him) Benito Mussolini got rid of one more power which might threaten the power of the Duce. Before Starace, many an old-time Fascist had been relegated to oblivion or death: Hero Italo Balbo to the Governor Generalship of Libya and then to mysterious death in his airplane; Soldiers Pietro Badoglio and Rodolfo Graziani to retirement; Loudmouthpiece...
...months the industry has had a pretty good idea that FCC would tell NBC to get rid of Blue. Plenty of people have tried to buy Blue, such as ex-District of Columbia Commissioner George Edward Allen, and even more have been said to have tried, such as Tommy Corcoran; but with all radio in flux, all such attempts have come to nothing. Radiomen guessed the likeliest turn at Blue would be no sale to outside interests, but independent status for the network as a separate corporation, with its stock going to R.C.A.'s present shareholders...
...Communist Party is destroyed we thereby rid ourselves of the one real society in restraint of revolution just as surely as removing toxins from the body would wipe out antitoxins. I know of nothing that promotes a greater satisfaction with the U.S Constitution and its guarantees than listening to the long-range dialecticians of the Kremlin whose thinking is usually conditioned by the amount of static on their short-wave receiving sets...