Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person in the audience, and the way the slinky soprano voice wooed the ears as much as the lithe body invited the eyes. By 1927 she had received an estimated 40,000 love letters and 1,192 proposals of marriage, one from a rajah who offered to get rid of his harem. Acting on the theory that the show never ended, Baker could be seen regularly strolling down the Champs-Elysees with two leopards or a pair of swans on a leash. Gradually she found France more congenial and became a citizen in 1937, eventually buying a medieval chateau...
...Coop management tried for years to get rid of Steele but he was consistently reelected by the Coop membership, until he moved out of state last year. Under the new system, Steele would never get elected. This year another student Coop member, Brad Marvin, planned to run for the board. But the Coop management had apparently had enough of that crap with Steele...
...article, The Great World Crisis, Geoffrey Barraclough wrote similarly of the food situation: "The first necessity, in discussing the food question, is to get rid of the misconceptions in which it is currently bogged down. Two myths, in particular, have befogged the whole issue. The first is the persistent legend that food shortages are the consequence of inexorable population pressures. The second is that there is an over-all shortage of food stuffs. Neither will bear serious scrutiny...
...Eckstein, also sees a healthy stimulus for 1975 but worries that there will be little continued impact in 1976. Most experts seemed to agree with the general view expressed by a third member of the TIME board, Arthur Okun: "It's just what the doctor ordered to get rid of a recession...
Worst Scandal. Perhaps the worst scandal Alexander inherited was the agency's Special Services Group, which had amassed dossiers on 3,000 supposedly extremist organizations and 8,000 individuals. "I got rid of that damned thing two months after I got here," he says. Alexander has also passed the word that any political requests for tax returns be rebuffed - and if they come from the White House, be personally relayed to him for refusal. "I want to be sure that there is no backdoor information going out of here," he says. Apparently there no longer is: there...