Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel shortage. The Journal's biggest local staff (about 90 newsmen) is still in Manhattan, but some 160 staffers work out of bureaus in 17 other U.S. and Canadian cities, bringing the Journal a lot closer to Main than Wall Street. Says President Kilgore: "If we ever get rid of the ups and downs of business, it will be because people now are reading much more about it and are acting on what they've learned by reading...
Delighted to be rid of him at last, the Nationalist government permitted Trevor Huddleston to preach his last major sermon over a national broadcasting hookup, but warned him not to discuss politics. He delivered a strong indictment of the government, and called apartheid "blasphemy" and "refusal of God's plan and purpose." That was not politics, he later told angry government officials, but simple Christianity...
Snapped Strobel, who has been fighting with Mansure over GSA procedures: "I didn't want anybody snooping around my private business. Besides, I had other things to do. I was working 12 hours a day. If they want to get rid of me, they'll have to fire me. I'm not the kind of man who runs...
With a third down and 13 yards to go on their own 23, the Tigers tried a bucklateral play with Martin banding off to quarterback John Sapoch, who was supposed to pitch-out to the tailback running wide. He never got rid of the ball. Meigs came bursting through and knocked it right out of Sapoch's hands. Kennedy recovered for the Crimson...
...announced the lead story of the fake, had been distributed by editors, the parody appeared. The men of the Daily Prince were only successful in getting papers to parts of Leverett, Lowell, Winthrop, and Matthews Hall; elsewhere they failed completely. They then made an anti-climactic effort to get rid of the sheets on the Larz Anderson bridge before the game. The takers, however, were...