Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Part of the solution of the "mail mess" would be to raise the postal rate of bulk mail. This would rid the workers of quite a load of junk mail and would raise more money for the Post Office...
...suppose what they mean is that they don't want to say it's all right to use this place but they don't want to get rid of us right now," said a Free University participant...
...planes use a Russian bombing technique. They come in very low against positions on the canal, and before they reach the target they pull up to 1,500 or 2,000 ft. They dive, get rid of all their armament and then they turn west. This is the best way not to get hurt. It isn't the best way to hit the target...
...following year to the creation of the American Colonization Society, which was to establish in 1821 the colony of Liberia. Great amounts of cash and a perplexing mixture of motives went into the venture. The slaveowners and many Border-state politicians wanted to use it as a scheme to rid the country not of slaves but of the militant free Negroes who were agitating against the "peculiar institution." The abolitionists, until they took a lead from free Negro leaders and began attacking the scheme, also participated as a means of righting a great historical injustice. Many blacks went along with...
...like its twin, the illusion of secession, the fantasy of a benign amputation that would rid the country of black men to the benefit of a nation's health not only persists; today, in the form of neo-Garveyism, it fascinates black men no less than it once hypnotized whites. Both fantasies become operative whenever the nation grows weary of the struggle toward the ideal of American democratic equality. Both would use the black man as a scapegoat to achieve a national catharsis, and both would, by way of curing the patient, destroy...