Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syracuse defeated the Crimson 19 to 15 and the Big Rid won by a score of 13 to 9. Syracuse only managed to eke out its triumph by concentrating its first lien men to outscore the Crimson in the game's second half by more than two to one. This was after a startling first half at the end of which the varsity...
Actually, it took Johnson a good deal longer than he thought. For nine years, balanced precariously in a chair with only three legs, he worked at his word lists in the garret of his Gough Square house. At first he had a lofty ambition: not only to rid the language of impurities, but to fix it permanently. "Our language," he wrote. "for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal...
...have dropped to 1.1% in January 1955 v. 1.7% three years ago. Bankers who felt that the loans were increasing too fast think that this type of credit is already tightening. VA loans are dropping below par value, thereby boosting interest rates, since banks and other holders can get rid of them only at a discount...
...food has caused the U.S. to impose strict import quotas on agricultural commodities, a policy which is not only condemned by foreign nations, but is opposed by the U.S. itself when other nations practice it. Furthermore, the U.S. angers its friends almost every time it tries to get rid of its surpluses abroad at competitive prices. Example: U.S. attempts to sell butter abroad, said Chairman William Marshall of New Zealand's Dairy Products Marketing Commission, constitute "pure and unadulterated dumping of surpluses" in violation of international trade agreements...
...pipe, taking it out of his mouth only to mutter: "Most embarrassing, most embarrassing." Attlee left it to his right-wing followers to tear Bevan down, and they did, though messily. "Why did you once take me for a walk down the corridor and say we must get rid of Mr. Attlee?" one woman M.P. demanded of Nye Bevan. "That's a wicked lie," Bevan shot back...