Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...often, these two categories--intellectual achievement and moral character--are divided from one another as if they were not only separate but also mutually exclusive. As students, we are taught to rid ourselves of biases in studying history, and to consider art as above and removed from morality. What is not so often stressed is the necessity, and desirability, of moral judgements in history, or the fact that criticism of a work of art is itself a moral action. The whole academic world is involved with morality, but the distinction between "objective" investigation and "subjective" judgment can at times serve...
...National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler who wants independence without bothering with elections until later. From a Belgian point of view, there is little to choose between the two major parties-or the 58 other varieties; the main objective of all is to get rid of Belgian rule...
Oscar's plugs hit the surface with short, sharp slaps. "The big ones, they get nerved up by the noise," he explained, "and maybe that's the best time-when they don't think, and want to get rid of the damned thing, and hit it. If he hits, he's a fighter. You see that pole bend down and that striper taking all your line and going out 500 ft., pulling like a bull, making circles, doubling back. Then he quiets down, and you think you've got him. You start bringing...
Intentionally or not, Biographer Big-land has written an expose of advanced thought in Shelley's England. In the Movement, her record shows more finance than romance and proves again that those who set out to rid society of hypocrisy usually have plenty of their own in case they succeed...
...finally brought him down. His assassin turned out to be a 43-year-old monk who practices the traditional Ayurvedic (native) medicine-a secret method of treatment with herbs and massage. According to Colombo police, the monk bore a personal grudge against Banda, presumably because of his refusal to rid Ceylon of its modern doctors...