Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Kennedy was elected, the new set of intellectuals that invaded the White House decided that bombing was a little too spectacular. What was needed, they decided, were specially-trained Marines who would be ready to make a quick trip to a rebellious land, get rid of the rebellion, set up a puppet government, and then return to defend the homeland. After all, hadn't the CIA coup in Guatemala worked just that...
...long can we be passive and turn the other cheek when we get hit?" Bobbi Baker asked, and a lot of the merchants agreed. Jim Jacobs, owner of J. August, said, "I'm not talking about killing the grass, just getting rid of the weeds, that...
...LONGER imagine a solution to any problem, the least of which is my own unhappiness, that is short of revolution. How can the problems of pollution possibly be solved without getting rid of chemical companies that continually lie about the effects of their product, and who, when forbidden to sell them in America, rush off with them to the Third World? And the chemical companies won't really like being gotten rid of, and they have many friends, many more than...
Four years ago, Speer was released from Spandau, where only Rudolf Hess remains. Now 65, he lives in Heidelberg, a nearly forgotten figure who works as a management consultant and relaxes by walking in the country. When he writes that he will never be rid of his sin, he convinces, partly because he now has little to gain by such an admission. Speer is right when he says, "no apologies are possible...
...things lively by providing his performers with shrewd bits of comic business. In one memorable interlude, Dishy, having finally conquered Miss Hailey, lies spent and sleepy on the bed. Miss Hailey wants to know if the interlude was really something more than merely physical. In his desperation to be rid of her, Dishy moves so far away from her that his head rests on the night table. If it lacks real depth, Lovers and Other Strangers also lacks pretension. It aims only to be thoroughly diverting, not definitive. And that's all right...