Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hatches, explained the ditching procedure (fasten safety belts securely, rest head on pillow on the knees, cross wrists behind legs, grasp each ankle from the front). Passengers discarded their shoes (the women took off stockings so they would not slip if they had to walk on a wing), got rid of sharp objects (e.g., fountain pens, tie clasps), shouldered their way into life jackets. One woman tore the crucifix from her rosary, kept the beads...
...about the health issue. "I might flippantly say," quipped Wilson, "that I'm qualified now to run for some kind of a high office." In a pronouncement recorded for Voice of America broadcasts, British Prophet Arnold (A Study of History) Toynbee admonished his listeners: "Is mankind going to rid itself of two of its three traditional scourges-war and pestilence-only to be done to death by the third scourge, famine? Surely we are not going to be so stupid as that!" With no more war and everybody living longer, however, Toynbee foresaw no way for the human race...
...Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world it has showed itself in the nagging vitality of NATO, Iceland's decision to get rid ot U.S. troops, the division and rancors among the allies over Cyprus, Formosa, North Africa and Suez...
...curve over the corners of the plate and he never made the same mistake twice. Slaughter calmly hit him three for five, but Sal struck out ten Yanks, stranded another nine on the bases. Behind him, the Dodgers piled up nine hits (including homers by Robinson and Hodges), got rid of starting Pitcher Whitey Ford in the third inning, tormented Relievers Kucks, Morgan and Turley, and won easily...
...scene is the ruins of Athens, among which a few gods and goddesses still philander alongside the tourists. Orpheus, a hearts-and-flowers fiddler, plots with Pluto to get rid of his wife Eurydice, although she is really very fetching in her tight red pedal pushers. While Pluto and "Eury," as she is known to her friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass...