Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mistrust of the chief of police" among union members as a result of the changes, and would like to see a reduction in working hours to make up for the increased workload. One union spokesman suggested that Gorski's reorganization might be part of a larger University plan "to rid itself of unionization in the police force" by driving out older members of the force and refusing to hire new replacements. The University has replied that there is "a danger of overstating the importance" of the morale question, and has stated that it hopes to solve the reorganization question without...
Fourteen years ago, members of the French Academy unleashed a monumentally unsuccessful offensive against the invasion of Franglais, which brought le smoking (dinner jacket) and le footing (a walk) into the language of Racine and Corneille. Now French speakers in Belgium want to rid their vocabulary of a similar disease - Belglais. Leading the campaign is Parliamentarian Antoinette Spaak (daughter of the late statesman Paul-Henri Spaak). She wants a law that would penalize Belglais-speaking government officials 65? to $2.50 per offense, depending on how flagrant it is ruled...
...sheet, Thunderbolt, apparently prints 15,000 copies each month. Based in Marietta, Ga., the party is headed by Lawyer J.B. Stoner, a longtime bigot given to saying things like "There's no point in our going out and shooting Jews and niggers because we couldn't get rid of them that way. It has to be a national program...
...ndez Toledo, 55, taps at a map of the near-unpenetrable 35,000-sq.-mi. area that his troops intend to cover during the next four months. He outlines their objective in bluntest terms: "I will stay here until I have completed the mission my President gave me-rid the mountains of this curse." Adds an aide: "You had better advise New York that Mexican Brown is going to be in short supply from...
Ever since the College got rid of masters' choice as a method of assigning rising sophomores to Houses, freshmen have cursed the computer that places them in their bottom choice...