Word: rid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Yugoslavia's industrial paralysis and its failure to raise the standard of living. Boris Kidric, Tito's No. 1 economist, declared: "Soviet theory sometimes seems to be very funny . . . [We] ought to pay enormous attention to the development of capitalist economy . . . We must get rid of narrowness, that basic provincial habit...
...University employees want to get rid of Mulvihill, but they don't want it bad enough to pay us the dues for helping them," Sullivan continued. He thinks the maids want A.F.L. support, but admitted that without the engineers and maintenance men, they couldn't be strong enough...
President Truman has reaffirmed the doctrine of civilian control of the military and of foreign policy. In a move that was not calculated for political advantage but cannot fail to clean up the political atmosphere, he has rid the Government and the United Nations of an agent whose political pronouncements have been a continuous source of embarrassment and danger. General MacArthur's strong views on Communism, on the "Asiatic mind," on Chiang Kai-Shek, and on practically everything else, were enough, as the President noted, to make the General "unable to give his whole support" to the United Nations campaign...
...afternoon, as his chauffeur was driving him home "about three-quarters drunk," Candler heard a voice "just as clearly as I ever heard anyone . . . The voice said to me, 'You must get rid of your self; you must renounce your self; you must reject your self.' These were surprising words. I should not have been surprised if the voice had commanded me to stop drinking. But this was not the message at all ... My self was my trouble-my love of myself, my fear of anything that might frustrate my wishes . . . False pride had erected a barrier between...
...Bookmaker Frank Erickson and an internal revenue agent named Schoenbaum, and under Halley's persistent prodding, told a tale of Costello, the Boss of Bookies. Levy testified that in 1946 the New York racing commissioner threatened to revoke the track's license if he did not get rid of the bookmakers who were operating there. Levy instantly thought of his golfing friend Costello, and hired him to keep gamblers away from the track. He paid him $15,000 a year for four years. Overnight, the bookmakers magically disappeared...