Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth amendment passed calls for automatic expulsion from the Council of members missing more than five meetings. David M. Perlmutter '59, Secretary of the Council, stressed that this provision is designed to compel attendance at meetings, not to get rid of Council undesirables...
...What united Frenchmen as dissimilar as Hubert Beuve-Méry, neutralist publisher of Le Monde, and the royalist pretender, the Comte de Paris, Prince Napoleon and Brigitte Bardot, cloistered Carmelite nuns and a nameless million voters who had previously backed the Communists, was an intense desire to be rid of the ungoverned and ungovernable past. It was a vote against twelve years of muddle, against 25 governments that had fallen one by one, against the "system" that De Gaulle once called the "trade union of place holders." It was, above all, a vote of confidence in Charles de Gaulle...
...recommendations for boosting tariffs, foreign nations regarded quotas as much the lesser evil. They were fully aware that U.S. mine production has fallen while imports have climbed (see chart). Canadian politicians railed at the ruling, but Canadian miners were more subdued. "It's easier to get rid of a quota than a tariff," said V. C. Wansbrough, vice president of the Canadian Metal Mining Association...
...onetime Wayne County (Detroit) crime-busting prosecutor, onetime Michigan Democratic national committeeman, onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while the McClellan committee checked on Hoffa, Fitzgerald hired a private eye to ogle three committee investigators...
Long before the investigations cease, TV bigwigs may be ready to accept Herb Stempel's forthright solution for their scandal: "Get rid of giveaways. All these vaults and isolation booths are just obfuscation of the public. The networks can't control the gimmicks and the gizmos...