Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...physical burdens of the H.A.A. Judgment demands that despite whatever useful purposes certain items in the plant might have, the H.A.A. would do well to function without them, just for the sake of economy. But items like the Weld Boathouse, while expendable in a pinch, are tough to get rid...
...beautiful and exciting picture, then. But I cannot rid myself of a feeling that it is not a great picture by several Ganges-breadths. Why it misses greatness is difficult to say, but perhaps it lies in this: the force, the beauty of the novel lies in the deep contrast between the calm flow of Indian life outside and the turbulent rapids inside the adolescent girl. Without this contrast the background is superfluous, even distracting, and the girl's problems are deprived of a setting which gives them power. Renoir certainly does not miss this contrast...
McKay was sure that men "who have as clear a record" as the three University professors named, would ultimately be rid of any taint in Washington once there was an investigation...
...rid of Secretary Acheson and Senator McCarthy...
...meets a calculating blonde floozy (Beverly Michaels), who soon has him at the end of her leash. Unable to resist his $7,000 bank account, she marries him. Then, showing her contempt as broadly as she chews her gum, she waits around for a chance to get rid of her husband and get her hands on his bank account...