Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relieved that we have a chance to be rid of the proabortion, procriminal, propornography Supreme Court whose decisions have done so much damage in the past quarter-century...
What this parish and its 950 families needed was a parish hall. With a separate facility for bingo, dances, the women's club, the men's club and other functions, the church could get rid of its collapsible chairs and pray from the proper seat of religion, pews. Providentially, in the collection plate on Reynolds' second Christmas at St. Henry's was a check for $20,000. "I had never seen a check for $20,000," he recalls with wonder. He wrote its author, the president of a cement company, a note of gratitude. Four days...
Interior officials dismiss the latest assessment of the environmentalists. One spokesman says that Clark is a lawyer and approaches problems on a case-by-case basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth...
...with a problem Shklar's challenge. Neither public nor private sphere is any less cruel; yet more is expected of the former. Any liberalism that pits itself against the fear implicit in cruelty's vices has a task set out for itself. Is its power awesome enough to rid us of those vices? Hardly. Yet Shklar insists that it may help keep us from the rot in ourselves that leads us to follow fearful political solutions...
...this is small price to pay to restore to the White House a President who, at the very least, does not pander to our own worst instincts. It is small price to pay to rid the country of a man whose smug self-assurance thinly veils his daily denial of the complex, amoral, often unpleasant nature of everyday life...