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...Williams hesitated to attribute the actions taken against Hicks and himself as strict instances of racism. "I'll say maybe it was a case of management wanting to get rid of people who were outspoken," he said...
Just before William D. Shambroom left for Notre Dame midshipmen's training school in May of 1943, he donated all of his clothes, except a tuxedo, to a Phillips Brooks House clothing drive, got rid of almost all of his textbooks and carted his overstuffed chair from his Dunster House common room to his girlfriend's Cabot House suite in the Radcliffe Quadrangle...
...chemical fertilizer. By contrast, says John Dromgoole, who runs the Garden-Ville nursery in Austin, "poorly adapted plants put gardeners on a chemical treadmill, a treadmill we're trying to help them get off." Dromgoole, host of a popular radio and TV garden show, tells his audiences to get rid of Kentucky bluegrass and seed their lawns with buffalo grass, a robust short-stemmed native needing only occasional mowing. Instead of finicky azaleas, Dromgoole recommends lantana, an attractive flowering shrub that, in central Texas at least, thrives on benign neglect...
...unclear what the resolution will be. Many guards have indicated they will be satisfied only with a complete shakeup in department management. Department managers have privately indicated they may have to get rid of some guards, sources said...
...know how to get rid of the rumors," Heller says, "I wish...