Word: rid
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...unabashed guardian of Mussolini's legacy into the right-wing National Alliance. The party, which won 13.5% of the vote in parliamentary elections in March, shares power in the right-of-center coalition government of millionaire-businessman Silvio Berlusconi. A politician of intentionally moderate language, Fini has labored to rid his party of its World War II ties -- but not always with success. Last April La Stampa roused a furor when it quoted him as calling Mussolini the "greatest statesman of the century." He complained that the interviewer put words in his mouth but still considers joining forces with Hitler...
With The End of the Hunt (Dutton; 627 pages; $24.95), a novel that sifts the moral and political wreckage left by the Irish civil war of 1921, Thomas Flanagan brings to a rueful close his vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising...
...wish I could say the same about the Red Sox or Bruins. And speaking of those Bruins, Cam Neely's a free agent, wouldn't he look nice playing next to Messier? It probably won't happen, but then again they probably said Boston would never get rid of that guy Babe Ruth...
However, let's not get into a war of words here. I mean, we didn't ask you to get rid of Babe Ruth or make Bill Buckner and Bob Stanley blow Game Six of the 1986 World Series...
...York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny as the postcommunism paralysis in Russia. Altogether, Rebellions provides proof of the conclusion reached long ago by its author...