Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among possible motives of Bulgaria's Communist government were: 1) a horde of homeless, propertyless refugees, arriving as winter began, would severely tax the strained Turkish national treasury; 2) it would rid Bulgaria of an unassimilable group, living near its strategic frontiers; 3) it would make even more docile the 600,000 Turkish Moslems who stayed behind; 4) it would provide an excellent avenue for sneaking into Turkey hundreds of Red agents...
Cocked Pistol. But the trustbusters have not relented in their war on A & P. They are now trying to force A & P to get rid of its non-retail subsidiaries and to sell its seven retail divisions to separate owners-trying, in short, to divest the Hartfords of their empire. Says Mr. John wryly: "We'd be too crooked to run it." The Hartford brothers have fought back, and fought hard. When they planned a series of full-page ads attacking the trustbusters, A & P's lawyers warned the Hartfords that they might be sent to jail...
...earn money for the purchase of machinery. Discontent is already growing on the countryside; only two weeks ago starving peasants in the village of Selo burned local government headquarters. Similar outbreaks may convince Russia that the time is ripe to bring Yugoslavia back into the Cominform fold by getting rid of Tito and the Titoists...
Taft is, of course, a national figure, and it is his part in the Ohio campaign that makes it a race of national interest. Labor dislikes him because he was an author and the most vocal exponent of the Taft-Hartley Law. Many Democrats want to get rid of Taf because he opposes the administration consistently and has the prestige among his Republican colleagues to make these political opinions felt. Taft balked at sending aid to Europe, opposed the Atlautie Pact, fought the nomination of David E. Lilienthal as Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, advocated renewed aid to Europe Kai-Shek...
...bolster confidence in the nation's military establishment and get rid of a political liability, the President finally fired Defense Secretary Johnson, replaced him with...