Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delicious Tremors. On the whole, Hound is a quite respectable adaptation of the most evocative of the four full-length Holmes novels. To be sure, the villainous Stapleton, who sets loose the title hound in order to rid himself of the two men who stand between him and the Baskerville fortune, was somewhat softened for celluloid. A romantic interest was added so that Richard Greene, as the last direct heir to the estate, has something to do besides express amazement and gratitude at Holmes' power. It must also be admitted that the movie is more pokily paced in reality...
...only in exchanging gold for manure but in the parting shots--Reggie Smith called Boston "racist," as Bill Russell of the Celtics had before him--levelled by some departing victims. Some, on the other hand, say that Reggie Smith was a troublemaker anyway, and we are lucky to be rid...
...committed during robberies or other felony crimes. The payoff has been a solution rate of more than 80% for both categories. Police in Portland, Ore., for their part, have a special unit to bust fencing operations in hopes that burglaries will drop because the swag is harder to get rid of. The rate did indeed drop 16% in the past two years. In New York City, policemen now operate the third largest taxi fleet?some 200 vehicles. It seems taxis make excellent camouflage for stakeouts and street patrol and were involved in half of all arrests made in undercover operations...
...prince was mentally deranged-and thus presumably would escape death. After further investigation, however, Saudi authorities concluded that the murder had been the politically motivated act of a sane man. In fact, said Radio Riyadh, the prince had confessed to the assassination, explaining it as an effort to rid Saudi Arabia of the rule of Islam because it stood "in the way of the development of the country...
Outworn Welcome. The P.R.G.'s decision to get rid of foreign newsmen appears to reflect a Communist belief that for the moment at least, less news or no news is good news. However, the P.R.G.'s public explanations have been vague. One polite official, Bui Huu Nhan, of the Committee for Foreign Affairs, told ten-year Saigon Veteran George Esper, "You have been here too long under the old regime. We want new people of our choice...