Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon wanted to get rid of Cox for reasons that are not too hard to imagine. And the only sacrifice he had to make for this little ploy was the loss of Elliot Richardson's decency at the Justice Department. Decency, however, is a commodity of little worth in the Nixon administration...
...Well Rid. And there was none until at last the Vice President found himself alone, unsupported by his President and with his options running out. It looked as though it would come down to a courtroom fight, and the evidence had piled up against him. "I have never seen a stronger extortion case," says U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson of Chicago, who was brought into the affair at the last minute to augment Justice's firepower. "If it had gone to trial, a conviction would have resulted. The man is a crook. The country is well rid...
...Guzmán, a member of Chile's four-man ruling junta, at a press conference last week. It was not true, Leigh insisted, that he and his fellow generals were fascists, as their enemies had charged. Instead, he claimed, the junta was merely taking temporary measures to rid the country of the Marxist disease spread by the late President Salvador Allende Gossens. The military's goal was to achieve "reconstruction" and "normalcy." Once these were reached, said Leigh, the generals would return to barracks...
...guards at Walpole played games with the prisoners to incite riots in order to keep the pot boiling. It was a deliberate and successful attempt to get rid of Boone and his programs, to justify human warehousing and more security." Sandler said...
...important to the University to get rid of these five students? Hardly. But it is important to intimate activists so that the return of B.U. ROTC will provoke no organized protest. Nothing is so frightening as the successful exercise of arbitrary power. Even an overwhelming CLA faculty vote last month "insisting" that the hearings be halted has failed to deter the administration in prosecuting the five students...