Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from their battle stations in the mountains, but Commander in Chief General Sir George Erskine could not resist the clamor. Six hundred young Inniskilling Fusiliers, in jungle-green uniforms and black berets, marched into Nairobi last week with orders to screen every African in the city. "Nairobi wants to rid itself of between 15,000 and 20,000 Negroes who are living in the city without permission," said Police Chief John Timmermann. The cops admitted that they could not keep any more Kukes in jail because "our prisons and detention camps are already too full...
Continuing he explains, "The city manager never has to respond to the people. He's a tough guy to get rid of. It took 11 years to get rid of Atkinson, and then it took a shotgun wedding...
...reply. The cordiality shown in their exchange was only letter-deep. Old Pro India had always considered Political Amateur Mitchell naive and impractical. When Mitchell set out to "integrate" the women's division into the general national committee organization, India was sure that he was trying to get rid of her. At first, she thought she could outlast him. But Amateur Mitchell turned out to have considerable staying powers of his own. After he consolidated his position and erased the last traces of the women's division at the Democrats' big rally in Chicago last month...
...Government had also asked that G.E. be ordered to get rid of half its lamp-making facilities. But Judge Forman tossed out the U.S. request as "neither feasible nor in the public interest." G.E. has not decided whether it will appeal...
...husband, Willie Bauché, who is having hives, hay fever and asthma at the thought of having lost her to Rainier. Willie is a Hollywood "universal genius" and triple-decker phony, not quite real enough to be Apathetic. Willie finally hires a killer to get rid of Rainier. But the killer is killed himself, and Rainier goes to Korea, leaving Ann desolate but able to understand a bit of the old Cavalier compulsion...