Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is, accordingly, the classic problem of how to get rid of a corpse; and thereafter, bites of U.N. thinking are washed down with draughts of unabashed theater. Only at the end do plot and theme rather floridly meet-when the Russian delegate, despite his Communist conditioning, shows a human spark. That human spark, deep inside even Communists, is what Delegate Cornell feels can eventually save the world...
...Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady ... If I don't get along with her, I reckon I can get rid...
...Depression '30s by the late Charles G. Ross, who became President Truman's press secretary after leaving the PD. The paper itself has won five "meritorious public service" Pulitzers: for exposing wholesale padding of vote registration lists in St. Louis elections (1937), its campaign to rid the city of smoke (1941), an investigation of the Centralia mine disaster (1948), rooting out newspapermen on the Illinois state payroll (1950), and exposing corruption in the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...Harvard I seldom saw joy expressed over learning a foreign language. Students swelter through a few terms of French or German to get rid of an unpleasant language requirement by pulling down 564 (?) on the qualifying exam; and that's the end. The thought of reading a book for pleasure in French or German seldom enters a Harvard man's mind. Everything "worthwhile" has been written in or translated in English, seems to be the general attitude, and it was my own until these past few months...
...Jacob Kulowski of St. Joseph, Mo. took a more radical line. Much of the trouble, he insisted, is in the design of automobiles, and he showed horror pictures to prove it, with front-seat passengers most often the victims. Automakers, he said, should pad the dashboard and get rid of the face-smashing projections which now make it as deadly as a shark's-tooth club...