Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election. To oppose him, they picked General Alcides Gonçalves Etchegoyen, 51, bull-necked chief of Rio's armored division. In a scorching campaign, Estillac Leal denounced his opponents as men who were plotting to give away Brazil's petroleum and mineral riches. Etchegoyen promised to "rid the club of totalitarian influences from left & right." On the appointed day last week, with most of the club's 16,003 members voting, Etchegoyen won a smashing 2-to-1 victory...
Horrses to Warter. While she lived there, Lucille did her best to rid Jamestown of dullness. Sometimes she gilded reality by imagining that the family chicken coop was her palace ("The chickens would become my armies"). She remembers that she was always unmanageable in the spring. "I'd leave the classroom for a drink of water and never come back. I'd start walking toward what I thought was New York City and keep going until someone brought me home...
Cambridge police yesterday began on intensified campaign to rid the streets of overnight parkers. The blow fell mainly on students with more than 60 tickets distributed on lower Plympton and Mill Streets...
Furthermore, claimed the opponents, if the honor system did indeed prove to be unworkable, it would be devilishly hard to get rid of, since College officials would be extremely unwilling to admit that Dartmouth men lacked sufficient honor to keep the system operating...
What would McGranery do about corruption in Government? "Clean it out and get rid of it . . . Weed out and fire any incompetent, disloyal or dishonest employee . . . Easy as pie." With McCarran's help, he brushed off, as mere feuding, some caustic testimony leveled at him by his Philadelphia enemy and fellow Democrat District Attorney Richardson Dilworth. (Said Dilworth of McGranery: "He would be most political . . . Anything would go for his political friends, anything to garrote his political enemies...