Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...books have sold about 375,000 copies in all editions. Does that mean that he must be damned as a second-rate one? Says Frost philosophically: "Who knows what will survive? The limit of my ambition is to lodge a few pebbles where they will be hard to get rid...
...actions of these people suggest a positive action we could all take to rid this wonderful country of filthy Communism. Each loyal citizen joins together with about ten of his loyal friends to form a Committee of Confidence. Each Committee of Confidence assumes itself innocent of any anti-American sentiments and makes all other committees prove they are not Red tainted...
...friends, who also hate Republicans, and I are oiling up our mimeograph. If 20 telegrams can get rid of Jean Muir, we can promise that six months from now our televisions will be darkened only by Democrats, and Democrats of the right race, color and religion. We hate lots of people besides Republicans. Some actors may deny our charges, but that won't help them. We don't have to prove anything. All we have to do is write letters and telegrams and make telephone calls to sponsors...
...turn into good little boys. Said he: "It is but 33 years since the overthrow of the Czarist regime in Russia. This is a short time in history. Like many other social and political movements before it, the Soviet Revolution may change. In so doing, it may rid itself of the policies which now prevent the Soviet Union from living as a good neighbor with the rest of the world...
...sued Boeing Airplane Co. for $24.7 million over the planes. The charges: Boeing had delivered the Stratocruisers 2½ years late (costing Northwest $17.2 million in traffic revenue and extra expenses), and the planes had so many bugs that Northwest had to spend more than $6,000,000 getting rid of them...