Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last month, Oxonians thought they had got rid of the big intruder, after a four-year battle that began back in 1945. By that year, the gasworks had already spread to within a quarter of a mile of Christ Church, had ruined the view of Folly Bridge, was besmirching Pembroke College with smoke and soot. As if that were not enough, the company announced that it was about to build a new gas retort, 92 ft. high. With that, townsmen, gownsmen, and the entire city council rose in wrath...
...Officer William McCleary arrived and saw the pilfered box, he was speechless for 30 seconds. Then Mr. McCleary reported to Matt Ridgway, and the sparks began to fly. Ridgway called the Honor Guard's captain on the carpet, ordered him to 1) search out the culprits, 2) get rid of them. Faced with the prospect of discipline for the whole company unless they confessed, Smith, King and Branch confessed...
...full-scale labor racketeering in New York, sold "strike insurance" to contractors, peddled "privilege to work" cards to non-unionists, and cleared a cool million dollars. Brindell ultimately was jailed for extortion after a special state investigation. Investigator Samuel Untermeyer formally urged the A.F.L. convention of 1922 to get rid of "Brindell's crony, Hutcheson, who has been an evil influence...
...This Week. To pull it out of the slump, Publisher Hearst called in a magazine specialist, Ernest V. Heyn, 47, who founded and edited Modern Screen for Dell publications, started Sport for Macfadden. Some drastic changes showed up in last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew of bloodshed, bosoms and pseudo-science that had built the Weekly up in its heyday, but let it down in its old age. (The first Weekly editor...
...Their 'pooled self-esteem' as one might call it, will certainly revolt at any further submission to the European. They would love to be rid of him. But the great question is, can they, and still keep their power...