Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Draft. "For a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. to suggest one day that we are 'losing the cold war' and the next day that we might get rid of the draft . . . is the height of political fakery and irresponsibility...
...over this final foolishness, Manager Fred Haney fined Bobby $100. Apparently he did not think it worth while to beef that Bobby was probably safe in spite of himself. Dodger Catcher Campanella had jumped a good yard out of the catcher's box before Pitcher Roger Craig got rid of the ball. When they bothered to look, the Braves discovered that they had won 8-7, had taken back their one-game lead...
...applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention-but he grabs for the next hand in line. The resulting traffic pile-up generally gets rid of the talker...
Things were quiet at Koinonia Farm last week. Not many tourists stopped at the newly reopened roadside stand on U.S. 19 because all the signs advertising it had been stolen. The people of Americus, Ga. (pop. 12,000) would like to get rid of Koinonia Farm; it is an embarrassment to some, a scandal to others. For it is a Christian experiment in racial equality...
Beyond that, the agreement is an effective U.S. countermove against the Soviet Union's efforts to encourage nationalization of industry and agriculture in India (TIME, Aug. 20). Summed up a State Department official: "We get rid of our surpluses, we create a future demand, we help a critical country build." With the Indian agreement signed and sealed, Ezra Benson turned to the next items on his surplus-slicing agenda: similar but smaller deals with Pakistan and Brazil, designed to help them...