Word: rid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rid of them?" I asked...
...easy," he said. "We just got hold of 50 tomcats and they killed the mice in no time. Of course we did have a little trouble getting rid of the cats-had to get a bunch of ferocious bulldogs. They really tore those cats apart...
...rid of the elephants...
...subject of guilt. The denial of personal sin, he holds, has done more to keep man from God, and to disintegrate society, than any other single factor. Psychiatrists are enemies of man, Sheen says, whenever they view the sense of guilt as an undesirable symptom and try to get rid of it by convincing the patient either 1) that he was not responsible for his sinful actions, or 2) that such actions are really healthy and normal...
...preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...