Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rid the council of its deadweight problem,the council's re-evaluation committee, whosemembership is split evenly between council membersand non-council members, is hammering out severalproposals...
...people who were involved in AIDS politics were involved also in a pro-sexual approach to life, were saying. "Let's separate the equation sex=death. [Let's] deal with our sexuality in a healthy way, not to advocate having unsafe sex but also to get rid of the irrationalities of "You have to be in monogamous relationship' or `You have to be celibate' or `You have to be this and that," which was basically pressure that was put play men in the 80s. And these were the people who kind of began to bring it out again. There were...
...want to place our elected officials on moral pedestals, expecting them not only to pass welfare reform but to lead us by example. If we could rid ourselves of those high standards, we would perhaps even be able to appreciate the fact that a checkered past might provide a politician with greater sensitivity in crafting legislation on difficult social issues like welfare reform or gays in the military. We would understand that politics is not the place to resolve all our moral dilemmas cleanly, and that the best we can hope for form politics is that it keep these difficult...
...also "got rid of some of the horrible puns...
...extensive exchanges between Johnson and Hoover illuminate a wary but important relationship of the time. Johnson loved the inside dirt that Hoover, then 68, often whispered to him. Hoover used his confidential files to hang on to power long past retirement age. Once when an aide suggested Johnson get rid of Hoover, the President replied, "Son, when you have a skunk it is better to have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing...