Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With Marshall Plan and arms for Europe, and if we should have another war-God forbid-who knows when there'll be color television? Better take this set right now . . ." In Washington, another dealer moaned: "Yesterday I sold exactly one receiver. Normally, I'd get rid of 30 to 50 in one day." Across the nation, other TV dealers gloomily surveyed piles of canceled orders. Manufacturers, with TV sets in their warehouses, gritted their teeth...
Another new rule gave Penn its third goal as the second half opened. Last winter the N.C.A.A. soccer rules committee decreed that a goalie could no longer dribble the length of the penalty area before getting rid of a ball. The goal-keeper can now only take four steps before throwing, or punting...
Secretary of State Acheson almost got rid of it last January when he stopped American aid to Chiang. It looked for a time as if we might manage to patch up our Asia policy with Point Four aid and other positive measures, and escape the worst consequences of our Chinese bungle...
...quickly as possible, Acheson got rid of the hot potato once more, this time throwing it to the United Nations. But he didn't get rid of it entirely--America is a member of the U.N. and is therefore still part-owner of the same old potato...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...