Word: ridding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cute or anything, but he looked interesting. I said hi to him, and he said, "Why are you walking around with a winter coat and a suitcase?" And I said, "I just got off the plane." And then he said, "Why don't you go home and get rid of it?" And I said, "I don't live anywhere." He was dumbfounded. So he said, "Well, you can stay at my apartment." So I stayed there for the first two weeks. He didn't try to rape me or anything. He showed me where everything...
...work with us, because you could have had an abortion," father than to restructure the work environment so women can be mothers and keep their jobs. It is this superficial view that encourages men to be even more sexually irresponsible, since non boyfriends say: "Here's $200-get rid of it or else I'm leaving...
...Barnum, and Stockard Channing, a lopsided-grinning gamine best known for mugging her way through the movie Grease, there could scarcely be better parts to broaden their images. Brian and Sheila cannot have anything like a normal life if they keep their helpless spastic daughter Josephine; they cannot rid themselves of guilt if they remand her to the unloving custody of the state. Yet, mercifully to audiences, the story is not their sorrow but their admirable if cockeyed determination to cope. They face their nearly intolerable burdens with a giddy, all-mocking humor, a pretend merriment that at times becomes...
...particular--preaches about students taking responsibility for their actions, the University is unwilling to take responsibility for its actions. By including students on the committee the University can pretend that those disciplined were judged by the community as a whole and not by an administration trying to rid itself of young troublemakers. Moreover, it is not the place of students to pass judgement on their peers...
...claimed, "you don't need to understand what you're reading." An Administration official said that Hall was recommended by retired Lieut. General Daniel Graham, whose book on Star Wars she also helped edit. As for her future, another staffer mused that the question is not "should we get rid of her, but when...