Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lola had absorbed a set of "bold and novel" notions through the pores of her celebrated milky skin by association with Alexandre Dumas. Her plans to give "freedom" to Bavaria were blocked by what she called "the cloven foot of Jesuitism." After two years, the Jesuits helped Bavaria get rid of her and the King, and she never forgave them...
References. In London, Norman White, 29, was sentenced to eight months in prison after police told in city court how he had taken five jobs in three weeks, got himself fired from each within two hours and collected a week's pay by phoning his new employer: "Get rid of that man White; he's a homicidal maniac...
...sold well, and Marx was made a Strauss director. One day the directors discussed whether the company should continue to manufacture and sell in its four retail stores in New York or give up selling. Marx alone urged Strauss to get out of the retail field. Instead of getting rid of the stores, Strauss got rid of Marx...
...first time) provided the new battle cries. Red China's ubiquitous loudspeakers dinned his down-on-the-farm phrases about bound-foot hobblers into a billion ears. Because Mao had said that the great mass of poor farmers were in reality pining to join collectives, "to rid themselves of their poverty," local committees proclaimed class war against "newly rich peasants and counterrevolutionaries" who had sprung up by "spontaneous capitalist influence" after Mao's original land redistributions...
...next day, two delegations of students, representing 33 juniors and seniors on the team, most Cassill and asked for Cherberg's removal. They accused him of "tyrannical methods," adding that "squad action to get rid of him has been a long time in the brewing...