Word: rid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other hand, some strong forces are working to keep the inflationary fever burning. Round the world, a growing number of jittery investors have lost confidence in the value of paper money and are rushing to get rid of their cheapening dollars, pounds, francs and yen by buying things that they feel have solid and tangible value: land, art, antiques, farm commodities, metals. The most dramatic consequence has been an incredible rise in the price of gold from $89.25 an ounce as recently as a year ago to a February high of $178. That increase and rising prices of paintings...
...Coach. Motorola will rid itself of a division that had piled up losses in the past five years-partly because of Japanese competition. Those losses had begun to threaten the profits of Motorola's billion-dollar-a-year business in semiconductors and radio and auto communications equipment. Wishing to concentrate on those products, Motorola began sniffing around for possible buyers for the TV business early this year...
...Bloom with careful hand recomposed his wet shirt. O Lord, that little limping devil. Begins to feel cold and clammy. After effect not pleasant. Still you have to get rid of it someway. They don't care. Complimented perhaps...
...other people. Harvard students generally have this ridiculous misconception that they make good conversation, and are all too ready to inflict it on their friends/victims. Beach found most of them as boring as he found himself, and though an inbred civility made it impossible for him to get rid of them as quickly as he would have liked, he found that by staring at walls even as people tried to talk to him, he could discourage even the most aggressive bad conversationalist. The virtues of silence are old-fashioned, but Beach enjoyed them occasionally without worrying about appearing dated...
After McLafferty gets rid of it, and sometimes before, the opposing fly half tries to deck him. When the other team has the ball, it's McLafferty's turn. The two go at it all afternoon...