Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There was a fantastic fear and guilt attached to all that, and I don't think anybody who grows up in that kind of system escapes those scars, or can be rid of them very easily. It really took me a hell of a lot to shake off some of that stuff. I think for a large number of people in this book that was true--a large number of them have spent years and years and years trying to fight their way out from under all that crap that was laid on them when they were young...
According to Smith, the rug, which police returned to Adams House Monday, was cut into two pieces, apparently because the thieves were planning to sell it and "thought they could get rid of it in small pieces...
...Renaissance monarch: he insisted on deciding personally minute details like the design of an invitation card to a company party, and became known as "the executioner" for his summary firings of scores of lesser executives. The latest and most notable casualty occurred in September, when Sir John got rid of another much harried heavyweight: 236-lb. Graham Dowson, 52, who had held the title of chief executive. Dowson had incurred Davis' wrath by rejecting the woman that Sir John had promoted as Dowson's fourth wife...
...Mexico and one about the decay of Atlantic City. In both McPhee the educated family man on vaction fades away; he is not present at all in the racing article, and he takes on an unusual, ghostly Monopoly-playing persona in Atlantic City. The removal helps, because it gets rid of the chummy, comfortable tone that dominates the rest of the book. McPhee's writing works best when he is confronting the unfamiliar and making an effort to convey it, not when he's recounting things that only reinforce his own view of the world...
...requested that the CIA hold on to all evidence that could be useful to the Church committee investigation, but an exception may have to be made in the toxin case. According to the U.N.'s Biological Weapons Convention, the U.S. Government has until Dec. 26 to get rid of all biological warfare materials. Probably the best solution was proposed last week by Murdoch Ritchie, a Yale pharmacology professor and an expert on saxitoxin. Since it is invaluable for the study of such diseases as multiple sclerosis, Ritchie urged that the CIA's costly trove of the poison...