Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realization now comes to me that this is truly a damning of the present Administration for its unwillingness to rid our Government of subversives . . . The only right way to end "McCarthyism" is to vote for Eisenhower and rid the Government of those elements that have created a need for "McCarthyism...
...powerful new support for the job: a state court of appeals decision upholding a city charter provision that any municipal employee who refuses, on the grounds of selfincrimination, to answer questions before an authorized body may be fired. Henceforth, all the board of education has to do to get rid of a suspected Red is to prove that he has used the Fifth Amendment to avoid an answer. First cases for the board to decide: those of the reluctant seven who refused to testify before Senator Ferguson...
...solution, since throttling the, extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...
...told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." Once, her teacher led her to a piano, put a piece of paper under the strings, and struck a chord. "That," she said, "is what your voice sounds like." Gertie worked hard to get rid of her cockney twang. On a Sunday excursion to Brighton, she put a penny in a fortune-telling machine. The pink card she got told her her fate: A star danced, And you were born...
...Wafd, Egypt's largest and most graft-ridden party, which Naguib turned out together with Farouk, only laughed in his face and is scheming day and night to recapture power. Its big wheels, Mustafa Nahas (ex-Premier) and Serag el Din, used the magic word "purge" to get rid of their rivals, then started plotting to get rid of Naguib. Their plan is to smear Naguib as unpatriotic for failing to throw the British out of Suez and the Sudan. Naguib's counterplan: a stiff electoral reform law, excluding men of "known dishonesty" from political office...