Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solemn board meeting in the Château de la Muette, onetime Paris home of Baron Henri de Rothschild. They decided unanimously that, win or lose, the game must go on, at least for another year. But medievalism in the European economy was proving abominably hard to get rid...
First Things First. The King sits in his countinghouse in the many-templed Cambodian capital of Pnompenh (pop. 260,000), which a TIME correspondent visited last week. He had just sacked his Premier, Huy Kanthoul, for failing to put first things first, i.e., to get rid of Communism before getting rid of the French. Norodom shrewdly recognizes that an "independent" Cambodia would be a free gift to the Communists, if the French marched out. Last month he dismissed his nationalistic cabinet and took charge of the kingdom himself. His cabinet of princes (TIME, June 23), he announced, would stay...
...year-old Navajo girl named Jean Smith was Dr. Clark's next miliary case. She weighed 79 lbs., had an agonizing, rattling cough and had trouble breathing. Moreover, says Dr. Clark, the X ray of her lungs "looked like a snowstorm." Under treatment with isoniazid she soon got rid of her fever, cough and shortness of breath. Jean has eaten...
...blue denim dress in the county jail the next day, she spoke with righteous indignation. She had been "busted" (jailed) last year for taking heroin. "But I kicked [got rid of the habit]. I have no eyes to weigh 94 lbs. again. You couldn't see me if I turned sideways." Now why, she demanded, was she put in jail merely for "smoking...
...article in Pravda. "Cannibalistic American imperialism," wrote he, has a master plan in the works for eliminating 700 million people in Europe and Asia with a calculated program of war, starvation and disease.* The Americans now consider themselves a "master race," with a mission to rid the world of "inferior" people. "Let all people of good will in all countries of the world know these facts," wrote Aleksandrov. "Let them remember that in the person of the American imperialists and their supporters there are the bloodiest beasts, the worst enemies of humanity...