Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What the Soviets really want is to get rid of Ronald Reagan...
...front runner exploded, "This is getting to be a pain in the butt. The press isn't going to let go of it." After a flurry of calls to his Washington headquarters, Mondale ordered that the delegate committees be disbanded Immediately. Said he: "I just want to get rid of them, period...
Johnson added that some Harvard police do harbor ingrained racist attitudes, bet said he was working to "get rid of the bad apples." He added, "Direction must be taken from the top. If the boss won't tolerate such behavior, the officers...
...arouse emotion and indignation and to make us curse the technical advancements that gave us the tremendous power of the atom. Yet it has been several years since the flood of writing and protest began, and the nuclear threat is still very much with us. Can we ever get rid of the bombs, or at least of the imminent threat they pose? Proposals for world government have resurfaced lately as a possible answer, but, given the success of the League of Nations and the United Nations and the current state of international relations, a move towards any such world organization...
...writes: "People who hope to push the fight against nuclear weapons to a successful conclusion must bring to their task the same qualities which won the fight against slavery, moral conviction, patience, objectivity, and willingness to compromise." We must become determined, he believes, to rid the world of unclear weapons eventually it will probably not happen in our lifetime, but we must maintain belief that at is possible and worth the battle. Hope must be our foremost tool...