Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...while installment buying of appliances and other consumer goods rode along steadily at about $5.5 billion, auto debt jumped a thumping 21% to $12.6 billion. It has gone up about $500 million every month since February, and it is still climbing. With less than eight weeks to get rid of some 1,500,000 of this year's models, many of the nation's auto dealers are making easy terms easier than ever...
...These doctors and educators et al. who so promptly damn politicians for the unfortunate difficulties in the path of the Salk vaccine distribution [June 13] should be reminded of the one sure way to get rid of our politicians-establish a dictatorship.That will do the trick-if they want to pay the price...
Colonial officials sneered. "Bourguiba's crazy and sick," said one. "There's no telling what he'll do." Added another: "The Neo-Destour is a fascist movement. Today their line is cooperation with us. But soon they'll start getting rid of their enemies. First it will be the Vieux Destour (nationalist extremists), then the Jews, then the French. All this enthusiasm has been a victory for France's policy. But it must stop at internal autonomy...
Because his child was killed [by a teenage hoodlum] gives more reason than ever for Research Chemist William Blankenship to carry on his work to rid the street "jungles" of such criminals and the causes that contribute to their creation. The young victim is a martyr to the cause. For most every good and lasting cause, someone...
Tito and his abettors . . . will not escape the terrible judgment of their people. They will have to account for their sanguinary crimes, for their repulsive betrayal" (Marshal Bulganin). "The time will come when the people of Yugoslavia will avenge themselves and get rid of Tito's clique" (Khrushchev). "History will give Tito the choice of poison, as was Hitler's case, or the rope, as was Mussolini's case" (Literary Gazette...