Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advantage. They feared that the Saudis and others might be prepared to jettison the Rabat agreement if a Geneva peace settlement could be worked out allowing some alternative arrangement involving Palestinians other than the P.L.O. One Fatah commander gloomily concluded that Egypt and Israel "have agreed to get rid of us by any means, without at least giving us back part of our land...
...legal fees-were paid by CBS), Schorr defended himself before the House Ethics Committee. Salant now proposed to take Schorr back; Schorr was tempted. But Lawyer Califano told him: "You're mad. There's nothing left to go back to. They just want to get rid of that awful February agreement and have you back until people forget you're a hero, and dump you then." So Schorr "resigned" and took the money...
Starr said he is hoping to rid himself of "the Ellery image," adding, "There will be no more rogues or four-letter words--I've hired...
...used equal inventiveness in tackling thalassemia (Cooley's anemia), which afflicts an estimated 3 million people globally-most of them of Mediterranean and Asian origin. Victims of this genetic disorder can usually be kept alive by regular blood transfusions. But because the body is not easily able to rid itself of the iron added by repeated blood donations, it accumulates to such an extent that by the age of 20 the heart, liver and other organs can be threatened. Looking for a way to remove the excess iron, the Rockefeller scientists turned to bacteria and fungi. In the course...
Harold's Club is offering $100 for the best idea to rid the sign permanently of pigeons. Among the proposals received so far: 1) Make the roost untenable with axle grease or spikes. 2) Blow the birds off with blasts of compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead...