Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Allende also complained that the strikes were "blatantly political" and were part of a Machiavellian plot. The conservative opposition agrees; it has a scenario for getting rid of Allende constitutionally. First of all, according to the scenario, continuing economic chaos leads the Congress to censure the President repeatedly. (This requires only a simple majority, which the opposition parties command, not the two-thirds necessary for impeachment.) Military leaders are warned that if they join the Cabinet they may be liable to prosecution for violating their oath to defend the constitution if they help a President who is acting illegally. Allende...
...together in the late 1960s. Three years ago, Chavez seemed victorious. He had signed contracts with 150 vineyards-most of the major ones in the U.S.-and had begun to organize workers in other fields, such as lettuce and strawberries. The grape producers were still bitter, and eager to rid themselves of Chavez...
...four years at Harvard, you will have to decide whether or not to take the path of least resistance. The dilemma, of course, is that the easy life comes for free. If you are lazy, it is the only way to go. If you want to get rid of the jimmies, you have to shake them...
...time, we decided to get rid of the cat, so we put an advertisement in Boston After Dark and a nice lady with a cat of her own came and took him away and renamed him Benjamin, just like the lady in The Sound and the Fury. The cat was so affected that he never molested the lady's bathtub, but on his first day in his new home, he began to claw the furniture. Thereafter he was well-behaved. Even though he had almost certainly never read any Ezra Pound, apparently, he had become so imbued with the Harvard...
AFTER WE got rid of the cat it was time for the Spring demonstration. There was no Spring demonstration last year, but before that there had reportedly been one every Spring since the great strike of 1969, when President Pusey called in the police, and if we are lucky maybe there will be a demonstration again this year, hopefully not because of anything like the mining of Haiphong, which provoked the one I am describing. There was a huge mass meeting of several hundred people, sponsored by The Crimson and all the radical groups that were not yet completely moribund...