Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been held captive first reported to the senior Marine colonel at Wiesbaden, their disheveled leader snapped off a salute and said: "The Marine squadron from Tehran reporting for duty, sir." Returning the salute, the smartly uniformed officer ordered them to march off to the Wiesbaden barbershop and get rid of beards and long hair. They...
...room in 1973 by the Korean CIA and hustled home, is one of South Korea's most popular politicians. Two years before his kidnaping, he polled 43% of the vote in an election that was obviously rigged to favor then President Park Chung Hee. Hanging him would get rid of a constant nemesis for Chun, an army general who became provisional President last September, nearly a year after Park's assassination. Chun is running for a full term in presidential elections on Feb. 25. Besides that, an execution would mollify Chun's fellow officers, who would like...
...Hojatolislam Mahallati in backing the bill: "We have let the government start negotiations with a third country and we cannot go against the government." The majority seemed to side with Nabavi when he contended: "We have rubbed America's nose in the dirt. The government wants to get rid of the problem in the next two or three days-either freedom or a trial...
Throughout the West, unseasonably high temperatures are making even artificial snow hard to keep and migratory birds hard to get rid of. In the Denver suburb of Aurora, golf courses have been plagued by hundreds of Canada geese, apparently deceived by the balmy weather into thinking they have reached Mexico. "It's wall-to-wall geese," says Bruce Waldo, the parks and recreation director...
...Morrison, a black woman of 35, hired Cucinotta to represent her for $200. But before he could, two federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents went to Morrison's home. They were blunt: "Your lawyer is going to make an ass out of himself, and you too," said one. Get rid of Cucinotta, they urged, and help the DEA finger a bigger pusher in return for leniency. If she refused, they said, she could expect a "stiff sentence" from the judge, who "hates black people...