Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German success also due to the fact that they got rid of obsolete plants and machines through bombings and dismantling and started anew with more efficient ones...
...importance; the only hope he saw for civilization was to have the Asians take over and run things on a simplified basis. Presumably, such a basis would mean hard lines for misfits. The Dean sometimes lashed out at medicine for keeping alive people nature would have got rid of "with perhaps greater wisdom...
...Coach Earl ("Red") Blaik, irritated by persistent de-emphasizers of intercollegiate sports, took a flying tackle at them and their "theory of mediocrity." Said he gruffly: "They've made it so you feel there's something shameful about having a good team ... If they succeed in getting rid of football . . . they'll have Americans like the French, spending their time sitting around in sidewalk cafes, sipping drinks and eying the girls...
...must have symbols, Preacher is Evil. His mind is contorted into a fantastic kind of Calvinist logic: He has been sent to rid the world of greed and sensual pleasure; to do so he must have money. Travelling up and down the Ohio he accomplishes all by enticing middle-aged widows to marry him; just before the wedding he acquires their meager fortune. Then he kills them. But when he marries the mother of the two children in hopes of getting the stolen money, he happily fails...
...cause of the outbreak. It carried a sharp warning for hospital nurseries everywhere. New diapers had been stamped with the hospital's name, and aniline oil from the ink had seeped through the skin into the babies' blood. A simple preventive: boil the diapers thoroughly, to get rid of excess oil, before using...