Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jury found Fineman guilty of urging two medical schools to get rid of his letters of recommendation after federal agents began their investigations. Fineman could be sent to jail for as long as ten years. At the same time, the jury acquitted Fineman of charges that he took bribes totaling $52,000 from parents desperate to get their children into professional schools. Fineman resigned from the state's house of representatives...
...victory, the outspoken admiral refuses to batten down his lip. He has criticized defense contractors for not knowing ships from "horse turds," urged Congress to issue most admirals coloring books to while away their time, complained about the training at Annapolis. The Navy brass still harbors hopes of getting rid of him, but it is no match for his powerful friends on the Senate and House Armed Services committees. One of them, Democratic Representative James Lloyd of California, came to his defense last week with a broadside of marvelously mixed metaphors: "I am not prepared to sail into the teeth...
Anti-Tire Forces. Not everyone has admired Heidelberger's Mount Baldy. The Andover town board, charging that the tires had become a breeding ground for rats and mosquitoes, repeatedly tried to force him to get rid of them. The state, worried about a fire hazard, once demanded that he bury his tires individually, 2 ft. deep and 4 ft. apart. "There's not enough land in the state to bury all my tires," snorted Heidelberger...
...valve in the first place and made millions on his invention. Abplanalp showed off another invention that he claims to have worked out in six months of scrawling on notepads: a valve trade-named Aquasol that uses a mixture of water and butane gas as a propellant. Besides getting rid of the fluorocarbons, Aquasol has another advantage: the butane propellant is not in solution but floats in pressurized form at the top of the can, so more of the can's space can be filled with deodorant, hair spray or whatever. "The breakthrough is in the valve," says Abplanalp...
...Ever since, those who divorce and remarry have been treated as "lepers and outcasts," says Bishop Cletus O'Donnell of Madison, Wis., the plain-speaking progressive who heads the bishops' canon law committee. The Baltimore decree "is doing us no good," he argues, "so why not get rid...