Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...largest wire service, walked out of the board meeting in Cologne's posh Hotel Excelsior Ernst and up to the trim little man who had been waiting in the lobby. The man listened to only a few words before quietly interrupting: "I gather you want to get rid...
Some German businessmen were openly cool to U.S. investment. "American stock purchases overseas," said Georg Bruns, manager of the Frankfurt stock exchange, "often have a speculative character. We need sound, long-term support from .our shareholders. Also, Germany must export capital to rid itself of high currency reserves. There are already not enough shares to meet demand...
...Minister of Finance to His Highness the Kabaka (King) of Buganda says: "There will be plenty of room for Europeans even after self-government. But we are determined to get rid of the Asians." Adds Nyasaland's demagogic Dr. Hastings Banda: "If they interfere in politics, they will be told to clear out. We will boycott their stores, and they know what that means-bankruptcy...
There are many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
They issued warning bulletins-"All flounder should be destroyed"-through the press, radio and TV. The alarms ran through dinnertime: some families got up from the table and dumped their filleted flounder into the garbage can. Housewives who were saving it in the refrigerator got rid of it in a hurry. Hospital switchboards lit up and were jammed for hours. Emergency rooms filled fast. About 300 people who said they had eaten flounder got treatment: some were hypochondriacs, most were mild cases, a few were severely poisoned. As far as officials knew, there were no more deaths...