Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dirty air were dramatized by the smog that shrouded most of the Eastern Seaboard for days. After a nationwide sampling, the Bureau of Water Hygiene reported that 5% of the water was contaminated and 11% was smelly, discolored or foul. Many cities fought a losing battle to get rid of their garbage. Philadelphia and San Francisco may run out of landfill dumps...
...dependence on the "private, mythmaking faculty" by which people dramatize their existence in a mass society. It is a kinship with Dickens as well. In the 1970s more than ever, the feeling he once voiced in a letter seems hauntingly familiar: "I don't seem able to get rid of my spectres unless I can lose them in crowds...
...most innovative idea at Bragg is its enlightened approach to a particularly contemporary problem of the modern army: drug addiction. It has been standard practice in the Army to simply get rid of addicts by booting them out on a dishonorable discharge. That shifted the problem to the larger society. But Tolson decided that the Army was as prepared to help them as anyone else. Any junkie can now walk into special wards at Bragg's medical facility, announce that "I'm hooked?help me," and no disciplinary action is taken...
...fluty call of a curlew heralds the first light of dawn. A faraway widgeon whistles to its companions. A rid off in the dark shallows, a flock of shelduck guffaw at one another like wee-hour carousers wending their way home. MacKenzie Thorpe is in his natural habitat. He is guiding three "guns" across the desolate marshlands of Lincolnshire on England's east coast. Bowlegged and bearded, he creeps through the high grass like some hungry predator, his burly hulk seemingly impervious to the chill wind knifing off the North Sea. Climbing a creek bank, one of the hunters...
...Cetrulo rid of his fear of running into walls, did not allow his opponents to charge once in his three wins. Ken Hetzler and Rick Tolbert would have won all their bouts too, if both hadn't gotten sloppy in the second round...