Word: rid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nonetheless, Brzezinski's bristling rhetoric-diplomacy by bluster, some called it-kept his colleagues nervous. Kissinger, for one, tried quietly through various Cabinet members to convince Carter that he should get rid of Brzezinski. Carter never went along, although White House senior aides say the President has developed a healthy skepticism about Brzezinski's steady stream of proposals. During the final spasms of the Iranian crisis, for instance, it was first decided that Brzezinski, not Vance, should fly over to try personally to bolster the Shah, a mission Brzezinski eagerly pushed. At the last moment, Carter was talked...
...court order for the removal of the birds in May. But last week Robert, 41, a former Chicago cop, told the judge that when he tried to give them to friends, there were no takers. Dorothea testified that her estranged husband actually had not tried very hard to get rid of the ducks and had been showing up at the house daily to feed them. Added her lawyer: "There are still 35 of them, and that doesn't include the duckling that got stepped on by the family dog and died." Robert's attorney, Leon Jumes, said...
Here in Baltimore, the man you describe as having a Napoleonic complex is known as the Wizard of 33rd Street, and that Earl Weaver is [July 23]! Once you catch his "Oriole fever," there's no getting rid...
...effort, allowing the fever to cool off and calm to reassert itself. It's too much, too soon. It is a good program for the 1990s, not something you have to pass in the summer of 1979. We might create a monster we can't get rid of." Agreed Abe Ribicoff: "We have the responsibility not to rush to judgment...
...such, a quintessentially gonzo situation. Hunter Thompson and his "technical adviser" (drug conduit) Yail Bloor, while escaping the angry Yucatan town of Cozumel and unpaid bills for hotel rooms, drugs and cars, have to get rid of "two hits of MDA, six tabs of acid, about a gram and a half of raw cocaine, four reds and a random handful of speed" before their Aeromexico flight touches down in Texas. The Lone Star State, it seems, has a reputation for being unfriendly to people who try to carry massive amounts of hallucinogens through customs...