Word: rid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roles of the French nobility are considerably trimmed, but Coe wisely avoided the common temptation to make them effete ninnies, which would significantly lessen King Henry's achievements. Edward Atienza would do well to rid his King Charles of lapses into the Maurice Evans tremolo; but it is effective, when he calls the roll of French nobles from the gallery, to have them line up in the shadows below clad in full armor and helmet, with their backs to the audience...
...spirit, its faith in itself, its authorities, its institutions. Citizens no longer knew what their citizenship meant; men no longer knew what their manhood demanded. The war cost more than Americans could immediately pay. It put the nation into a kind of mourning; perhaps Americans will not be rid of the experience until they have passed through the customary stages of grief: denial, anger, depression and, ultimately, acceptance...
...problem is now becoming acute because storage space, which the Agriculture Department leases from private companies, is growing scarce. Moreover, once acquired by the Government, the surplus food becomes exceedingly difficult to get rid of. Social welfare programs such as subsidized school lunches and foreign aid absorb only a small fraction of what the U.S. buys each day. The U.S. could easily sell some of the rest abroad, but only at a discount. The 95? per lb. that the Government pays for dry milk, for example, is almost 70? higher than the price on world markets. Moreover, any markdown could...
...immediate intention of the new, firmer measures is to rid the U.S. of the most recently arrived Haitian illegals, but officials also hope to discourage would-be immigrants still in Haiti. Explains an INS staff member: "We can't be home to the world's poor. It's as simple as that...
Perhaps the best reason for writing a letter is to get rid of it, to take the words that have been lolling about the brain like summertime teenagers, and putting them to work. But here we come full circle. For, as experience proves, one is not rid of the words by writing them. Too often they boomerang, are snagged in the wind and snap back with amazing ferocity...