Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compulsory grading of cattle required by OPS regulations. Before the week was out, the cattlemen got their wish: the Administration discarded meat-price ceilings (see above), and grading automatically became a voluntary matter again, as in pre-OPS days. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson advised cattlemen to rid their minds of "unwarranted pessimism" and to avoid "panic selling." By week's end the stampede to the stockpens had slowed down, and cattle prices had firmed. An Agriculture Department bulletin reported: "The sharp decline in meat-animal prices seems to be about ended...
...palms before hefting a pitchfork. He banned the traditional whist party in the parish house. "A whist drive," he said, "is an amusement, and amusements come from hell." He refused to conduct a Sunday school, because Sunday schools are unmentioned in the Bible. He wanted to get rid of the venerable church organ, since he disliked organ music-"a gabbled profanity" he called...
Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody...
...days Eisenhower, Humphrey, Wilson and Attorney General Herbert Brownell conferred and considered. Then Wilson slipped into the private side door of the President's executive office and revealed his decision: he would get rid of his stock (giving up to 20% to his family and selling the rest), and pay a capital-gains tax of several hundred thousand dollars...
This sort of thing prompts the doctors to ask: "Is natural childbirth natural?" Up to a point, yes, they reply. Unreasonable and unfounded fear of labor pains undoubtedly makes the pains worse, so it is a good thing to get rid of the fear. The "natural childbirth" training prescribed for pregnant women by Britain's Dr. Grantly Dick Read helps to relax the patients, the Baltimoreans concede. They also grant that, as practiced by well-drilled specialists in the U.S., the method may do no great harm...