Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dilapidated, bomb-scarred old Central Railway Station, the best and bravest was Momi, a dirty-grey draftee from the Milanese back alleys. Sallying forth on mission after mission from her base in Control Tower C, Momi did more than any of her comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning in the chase. One by one the other...
...arrival of a new White House tenant has usually been attended by entertainment-balls, parades, Indian war dances, even a White House rummage sale. The sale was staged by Chester Arthur, who wanted to get rid of a lot of old "junk," including a pair of Lincoln's trousers and a magnificent sideboard which had been presented to the former First Lady, Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes (also known as "Lemonade Lucy"), by the W.C.T.U. (it fetched a high price from a prominent saloonkeeper...
...last month's Slansky trial in Prague, with its accent on antiSemitism, the Communists unwittingly did B-G a favor. The trial discredited the party-line Mapam, and rid B-G of any fears of desertions in that direction. He hurried into conference with the General Zionists...
...great overriding purpose seems to be to rid the Philippines of Quirino. He and his followers believe that Quirino cannot possibly win again in a clean election...
Author Clune gives 1880 as the date at which the authorities finally rid the territory of the bushranger. By then, Aussie folklore was solidly built around such romantic idols as Ned Kelly (it cost ?110,000 to capture him and his gang); Ben Hall (the bullet holes in his body reappeared, it was said, as birthmarks on his bastard son); Frank Gardiner, whom a sympathetic jury stubbornly refused to hang and who ended his days as a relatively peaceful San Francisco saloonkeeper...