Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frank had neglected to tell Art about an agreement he had made with other tenants of their apartment building. All the neighbors had decided to have an exterminator on the same day to get rid of the cockroaches in the building. One day Art received a call at his office from a neighbor, asking whether he was willing to agree on the date of "C-Day." "When I asked for more information," he says, "her voice dripped ice, and it was obvious she thought I was trying to duck my share of the expense. I explained I was not Frank...
...doesn't like this part of a skipper's job, but the commodore is a determined man, and has taught himself some of the social graces. He invites small groups, in shifts, to cocktails before lunch and dinner; if they stay too long, he politely gets rid of them by saying he is needed on the bridge...
...Dudley's social and extra-curricular activities will continue as in the past--financed partly by the University and partly by membership fees. There is revived interest in tutorial for commuters, and as Arthur Smithies. Chairman of the Department of Economics, has said. Dudely is no place to get rid of the weaker members of the department...
...compromised his crown. Dutiful Commissioner Batho thought it unnecessary to mention that 1) neighboring South Africa covets Bechuanaland's black labor force, 2) threatens to use Seretse's marriage to a white woman as a pretext for annexing the protectorate, and that 3) Britain is getting rid of Seretse to appease Negro-hating Prime Minister Malan...
...rehabilitation, Kessler pointed out, orthopedists can now take advantage of the amputee's familiar "phantom limb" sensation, i.e., after an amputation, patients often "feel" pain in the lost member. Instead of trying to get rid of this sensation, doctors in Vaduz, capital of the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein, have been urging patients to cultivate it, e.g., by flexing the muscles in the arm stump, as if opening and closing the hand. Thus the muscle is kept active, and rehabilitation (with an electric hand) can be speeded...