Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...patient was not actually riding, he was daydreaming-or nightdreaming-about it. Unlike the healthy cyclist, a person with the motorcycle syndrome literally needs his machine; without it, he has a sense of "something missing" and an "acute awareness of inadequacy." As one patient told Nicholi: "If I got rid of the bike, there would be nothing but me, and that's not enough...
...that Stanford had not beaten in twelve years, Plunkett completed a remarkable 61% of his passes to down the Spartans 24-14. Said U.S.C. Coach John McKay afterward, "Plunkett is not just a drop-back passer. He can roll out, run when he's in trouble, and get rid of the ball with guys hanging all over...
...Saigon, the Saigon Student Union organized two "cultural events": an "art exhibition" consisting largely of pictures of the My Lai massacre and of Saigon police beating down student demonstrators; and a "soiree" of very political song, dance, and theatre- mostly a recollection of past struggles by the Vietnamese to rid their country of foreign invaders, and clearly directed to the present situation...
...mangrove forests are valuable lumber and the areas where they have been destroyed have been taken over by bamboo which is very hard to get rid of and useless...
...that. At General Motors you can't demonstrate on the premises, because they'll just call out the National Guard and kill you and something like that. It took the universities about a year or two to use the force of the state to protect themselves and to get rid of people who make trouble. But, that was bound to happen...