Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret checkpoint to transfer us to black State Department limousines with British military escorts. We had been saved by the signing of the Berlin Pact! A week after starving and thirsting on the dimly lit floors of Bautzen work camp, we were heading towards the nearest Hofbrauhaus to get rid of that thirst with a couple of mugs of dark Bavarian beer...
...super maximum security prison for the most rebellious and incorrigible inmates. Equipped to house 500 prisoners, this "maxi-maxi" would be relatively small and spokesmen for the guards' union insist that those assigned to it must be armed. The rest of the prison system would thus be rid of its worst troublemakers, who then would be able to make trouble in one explosive spot. "It would be a present day Devils Island," complains Republican State Senator John Dunne, who has embarked on a one-man Attica investigation. "The ethnic makeup would be almost entirely black. It could result...
...Scoring Well. If there was indeed an attempted defection, it would be a symptom, not a cause of the political jousting in Peking. Most probably, that jousting is bound up with the recently intensified efforts by army pragmatists and government moderates to rid the party of the leftist radicals who came to power during the Cultural Revolution. One indication that the moderates are winning is the prominence of China's astute Premier Chou. Most of China's leaders have been making themselves scarce. Chou has been out in public nearly every day. He was the only member...
First, let's get rid of tickets for financial aid students. Their parents probably aren't contributing to the College Fund and most likely they won't contribute to the graduating class donation. Besides, financial aid students ought to be out working on a Saturday...
Second, let's get rid of free tickets for the academic types around here who disdain contact sports. Not only are these students not likely to go, but if they appear, they are not likely to be impressed by the results of a football game into giving more funds as alumni. A sports test should be administered during freshman orientation week. Those who score over 560 will be given tickets. Those scoring under 560 may take a seminar in Sports A and eventually qualify...