Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commission, which expires next month, would not be renewed, because the "probable decline in business" before his court had made him "surplus." The judge was outraged: the State Department, he said, "doesn't have the guts to come out and say it's merely trying to get rid of me." He announced a sit-down strike. He would, he said, stay in Germany and go right on being chief justice even after January when his commission expires. Last week State sent Clark a "reminder" that he had been ordered to report back to Washington, but the judge...
Patterned after "Alcoholics Anonymous," the Yale group has condemned smoking an "subversive,' 'and seeks to cure those, like themselves, who desire to be rid of the urge to smoke...
Bargain Day. The dairy industry has developed one of the most ambitious plans to get rid of the enormous surpluses now held by the Government. It suggests that the Government sell back to the trade, at a loss, its entire stock of dairy products (the loss leader: 250 million Ibs. of surplus butter). Then distributors, presumably, would resell it to the public in a giant bargain sale...
...price-prop loans and farm products, an alltime record. Among the stocks on hand: 426 million bu. of wheat v. 133 million last year, 457 million bu. of corn v. 280 million in 1952, 426 million Ibs. of dried milk v. 31 million. In an effort to get rid of the surpluses, the U.S. is willing to sell $130 million worth for soft currencies. Britain has agreed to take $20 million worth of tobacco; West Germany will, take:-as a gift-$15 million worth of soybeans and tobacco. But the rest of Europe, fearful of U.S. dumping, will have none...
...this gives the hero any headaches, he easily gets rid of them with a packet of bromides about the impossibility of compromising with evil...