Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus the killing began. But even when enemy resistance did not materialize, the savagery continued. Twice during the morning, said Calley, Medina radioed him, demanding that he hurry and "get rid of" or "waste" the Vietnamese so that the attack could press forward. At one point, said Calley, "I broke out in a clearing, and my men had a number of Vietnamese in a ditch and were firing upon them." According to the charges, there were at least 70 men, women and children killed at the ditch, but Calley estimated the number last week at from four...
Overzealous Actions. Washington sources suggest that Figueres engineered the whole plot story to get rid of Williamson and Ploeser, a Nixon appointee. Don Pepe is, after all, an emotional man; only two weeks ago, he slapped a student for razzing...
...quota is always discriminatory," Caroline W. Bynum, assistant professor of History, said last night. "The only way to actually see what the quota does is to get rid of the quota...
Police Lt.-Gen. Chamras Mundhukanonda, whose organization is primarily responsible for the security in the region, claims that the large number of police will remain in the area for at least a year, to insure complete suppression of the insurgents. "We must," he said, "get rid of the terrorists for once...
Then a flurry of editorials stressed that the party must be rid of "monsters and ghosts." More teachers were hauled up to account-and the principal himself. In August, the Cantonese city and provincial party apparatus came under attack-and collapsed. Looking higher and higher for leadership as each layer of authority was discredited, the students continued to ferret out monsters and argue over the meaning of directives emanating from Peking. Advice to "destroy the Four Olds" (old ideas, old culture, old customs, old habits) sent Dai and his friends roaming through Canton, smashing anything that looked faintly bourgeois...