Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's rough & tumble council-the kind of place where, as Hegel said, ideas take on hands and feet-Douglas the reformer rid himself of a lot of liberal shibboleths and learned to take on the enemy. He had one more lesson to learn. He entered the Democratic primary for U.S. Senator, and tried to buck the Kelly-Nash machine. He did so well downstate that he actually held a slim majority going into Chicago's Cook County. There the machine votes rolled out and crushed...
...bitter about the will and I certainly was not surprised," he added. He said he hoped the bequest to the University would help him get rid of his annual cold...
...have given you a hundred million more," said Morgan, turning away, "if only to be rid...