Word: rid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fact, loomed large in her calculations. According to prosecutors, Smart decided to get rid of Greg rather than divorce him for fear that her husband, a 24-year-old insurance salesman, would keep not only their condo but also their pet. So, argued prosecutor Paul Maggiotto, she "got her hooks so deep into the hormones" of Flynn that he could not resist her influence. Last week the jury agreed, and Judge Douglas Gray sentenced Smart to life in prison without parole for conspiring to commit murder. All three boys pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and face the possibility...
...that gives spurious meaning to a plot, or, as Bobbo explains, "whatever got slipped into Cary Grant's pocket without his knowledge or that Jimmy Stewart picked up by mistake when the girl switched briefcases on him." The MacGuffin that Bobbo comes up with is a conspiracy to get rid of him that involves everyone from his bosses to his son's deceased Lebanese girlfriend to his limousine drivers...
...result of deep soul-searching. "After Vietnam," says Lieut. General Calvin Waller, deputy commander in chief of Central Command in Saudi Arabia, "most of the military men who decided to stay soldiers said to themselves, 'We have to do something different.' " The first priority was to get rid of the draft and create an all-volunteer force. By excluding from its ranks those who did not want to serve, the military hoped to get rid of troublemakers and incompetents. This strategy seems to have worked. Says Lieut. General John J. Yeosock, commander of the Army units in the gulf...
...welcomers was Carlos Melendrez, a Vietnam vet who noted the contrast between the welcome today and the one he got when he returned from his war: "The first thing I did at the airport was rush to the men's room and get rid of my uniform. I was ashamed. The guys and girls today can be proud to wear...
...good part of what I had to do was get rid of the opposition and tension so that it would no longer be viewed as a 'tenants versus landlords' system," Ford said...