Word: rid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Khrushchev secretly at the border-to ask new, large-scale Soviet economic aid, said unofficial Warsaw sources. His party purge, which was supposed to shake out the old Stalinists and strengthen his leadership, has bogged down into a sort of cataloguing census. The blighting bureaucrats Gomulka hoped to get rid of have clung like leeches to their party membership while the workers who were supposed to be the base of the new party have streamed out. Disenchanted intellectuals by the dozen have torn up their party cards. Of the 14,000 students at the Warsaw Polytechnic, a rallying point...
...remembered as the Soviet deputy high commissioner in occupied Austria who remarked of his soldiers' peccadilloes: "So what if an Austrian woman is raped-she may even have enjoyed it. And lootings? It's capitalist property anyhow that they are stealing.") By this little switch, Khrushchev rid himself of the man who helped him get rid of Zhukov, just as he had rid himself of Zhukov three months after the marshal helped him get rid of Molotov & Co. The further result was to give a member of the proffessional officers' corps the unpopular choice of enforcing...
Since World War II, the U.S. has spent $588 million converting Okinawa into the key U.S. military bastion in the Far East. Last week Okinawa's biggest city (pop. 180,000) had a chief executive pledged to rid the island of its "atom-hydrogen bomb base," and to return it to Japanese rule. Said a high-ranking U.S. officer: "Our chief task is to prevent Okinawa becoming a Pacific Cyprus...
...result of such recalcitrance, the regents fired Rainey and put mild-mannered Zoologist T. S. Painter in his place. The American Association of University Professors censured the administration, and when famed Folklorist J. Frank Dobie went on protesting the Rainey firing, the regents found a way to get rid of him, too. By the time the present president, Logan Wilson, took over in 1953, the university was still suffering from the dispute...
...power would have been diverted as well. Thus, any discussion about "helping the farmer instead of eliminating him," to quote Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, should distinguish between farmers worth helping and those worth discouraging. The Eisenhower farm proposals can deal with both as painlessly as possible--and get rid of surpluses in the bargain...