Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people believe in getting rid of Reds, he said, "then their answer is to keep the Republicans in power so we may continue to clean out the Augean stables." He identified himself as the chief stable boy: "Now Democrat office seekers . . . have been proclaiming that McCarthyism is the issue in this campaign. In a way, I guess, it is, because Republican control of the Senate determines whether I shall continue as chairman of the investigating committee...
...Canadian government, which regards a passport simply as a proof of citizenship, was well aware of Rose's departure. Explained an official: "If he never comes back, we're well rid...
...foreign Communism is enough to erase any error it made with regard to Harry Dexter White. Nor is there anything in the outcome to help formulate future policy. The atmosphere today is completely different from what it was in 1946, and the Democrats had already taken vigorous steps to rid the government of security risks. To base repressive measures of today on the events of seven years ago is the reduction ad absurdum of politics-by-hobgoblin...
...town of Tunxis, Conn., it is to meet the family of Eben, a moody young fellow she has taken up with in the big city. What Hester and Eben have not been told is that Selectman Matthew Avered, Eben's father, has organized a two-day drive to rid the neighborhood of a plague of wood-chucks. Nothing will do but that they take their place in the beaters' line. Hester is no mental ball of fire, but a few things quickly become clear to her: 1) most of the people in the town resent
...finish. Lennie, 12, looks disgustedly at his little brother. Their widowed mother has gone away for two days to take care of a sick relative, leaving Lennie in charge of Joey. Pretty soon Lennie and his pals are lost in an ornately gruesome game of getting rid of little brother...