Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After his first major TV appearance, John Cameron Swayze eagerly phoned his wife Tuffie. "How did I look?" he asked breathlessly. Said Turner "Like you were dead." A bit dismayed, Swayze got rid of most of the television make-up he had been wearing, added a toupee to thicken out his sparse thatch, set himself to cultivating an air of friendly animation. In three years, these simple measures have helped to propel brisk, 45-year-old Newsaster Swayze into a bigger-than-TV prominence. His Camel News Caravan weekdays, 7:45 p.m., NBCTV) now has an audience of some...
...officer corps have had far too much schooling and far too little service in the field of battle . . . Throw all these girls out of the camps. Get rid of the ice cream and candy. Give 'em beer and whisky-that'll help some. Get some pride in them. Tell them they...
Between gasps, the Prime Minister told correspondents that Iran would "fight to the death" for oil nationalization, added: "The first step towards the country's reform is to get rid of Anglo-Iranian agents who have sacrificed the whole nation to satisfy their greed." But he showed awareness of what was at stake in Iran for the free world: "The free nations of the world who assist Iran in this struggle will not only prevent the fall of this, one of the oldest nations of the world, but by survival of this nation, the fate of the world...
Jesus Salas Barrazas was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. After serving a month, he was freed and joined the army. Last week, a retired colonel at 63, Barrazas suffered a stroke in Mexico City. "I'm not a murderer. I rid humanity of a monster," he mumbled. Then he died...
Lady Belper never liked the small painting of Christ in the library of her home, Kingston Hall in Nottinghamshire. When villagers asked her to contribute something to their jumble sale last winter she thought she'd "get rid of it once and for all." She tagged the picture at a few shillings and sent it off. But bargain-hunting villagers didn't give it a second glance. Back it came to its donor...