Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Anneliese's parents had agreed to the exorcism with the local bishop's approval after doctors failed to rid her of epileptic-like convulsions. The prosecution took no issue with the rite of exorcism, which Fathers Wilhelm Renz and Ernst Alt conducted according to a Catholic ritual promulgated in 1614. But Prosecutor Karl Stenger argued that calling a doctor to examine the girl "would not have compromised the defendants' religious convictions." Churchmen seemed to agree. Munich's Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger said that the 1614 ritual "must be thoroughly revised," and the German Bishops' Conference ruled...
There is a lot a foot to get rid of tenure, but I'm against it. The greatness of an academic institution is the development of tenure, and out of tenure develops academic freedom: Those are the elders, they have made...
...preparing another demonstration against him. He promptly went to the local FBI office, where he confronted some 50 hostile agents and clerks. They presented him with a letter, signed by 100 agents, charging that "the FBI is being systematically destroyed for reasons unknown to us." Bell chided them. "Get rid of this hangdog attitude that somebody is after you," he declared. "You don't need me to be a nursemaid of any sort. You are all strong. Pick up your heads, and let's get going. I regret that you feel badly...
When Hoover died in 1972, Gray took over and immediately scotched a plan to promote Adams again. Instead, trying to rid the bureau of hard-core Hooverites, Gray ordered Adams out of headquarters, to the backwater office in San Antonio. (Many veteran agents believe that Adams urged Attorney General Bell to prosecute Gray for the Weatherman break-ins to even the score...
...Naval Hospital in Long Beach, Calif. for a two-to three-week stay, displaying the same remarkable courage that she showed when her right breast was removed because of cancer in 1974. Said she of her current problem: "It's an insidious thing, and I mean to rid myself of its damaging effects. There have been too many things that I have overcome to be forever burdened with this...