Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government ministries. Most of Greece's ambassadors and top officials of the national bank, the government-controlled radio and television network and the official Athens News Agency are expected to be removed next. Minister of Education Nicolaos Louros plans to revise school texts, poems and songs to rid them of their pro-junta slant...
...Bufo, a South American native, was drafted into Queensland service by way of Hawaii in 1935 to help get rid of the cane beetle that was threatening the sugar fields. The Aussies got more than they hoped for. Supplementing its diet with varied and copious helpings of other insects and frogs, the cane toad may live for 40 years, grow to be eight inches long and three pounds in weight, produce up to 40,000 eggs a year, kill cats and dogs with a glandular poison it secretes, and upset the natural balance of some areas...
...create an atmosphere, and one man alone can't change it. Even if we had a Serpico, as prosecutor, as chairman of an impeachment committee, he alone couldn't get rid of Nixon or the corruption that he stands...
...Harvard could admit equal proportions of the men and women who apply, while maintaining the present imbalance of its recruiting and financial aid departments. Because of these and other possibilities for evasion, students could never be sure--particularly given Harvard's history--that a "sex-blind" admissions policy had rid admissions of sex discrimination...
...from the Arabs was a cholera epidemic," jokes one Russian official-but they are keeping their temper in check. Says an Israeli analyst: "Everything would change if Brezhnev were to fall and anti-détente forces took over in Moscow. The Russians would then immediately try to get rid of Sadat and possibly [Syrian President Hafez] Assad...