Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joseph's Infirmary in Atlanta, where Surgeon William A. Hopkins found that he had a short stub of gullet extending one-third the normal length down from his throat, then nothing. Dr. Hopkins led this stump out through a hole in the neck, so Tommy could get rid of saliva. For feeding, he ran a tube into the stomach. This worked well for six years, until Tommy was big enough to undergo the operation. Then Dr. Hopkins pushed the gullet stump back into place, stretched a piece of Tommy's large bowel up into his throat to meet...
...stars do well indeed in the final play, Ways and Means, one of the best of the set. A bedroom comedy, complete with burglar, about a pair of upper-class house guests, out of funds, whose hostess wants to get rid of them, it is consistently funny. But why do they omit the final line? Without it, the end falls flat...
...Casey Stengel called on Oriole Hurler Billy O'Dell to save the American League's 4-3 lead in the All-Star game. O'Dell, who has an 8-9 record and has never had a winning season since coming to the majors in 1954, got rid of nine men on 27 throws. Bubbled Casey: "He had a fast ball, a slider and a mysterious pitch up from Mexico...
...chip on my shoulder as big as an elephant." The "aunt" who raised him turned out to be his mother, who apparently refused to accept him as her son because he had no legal father. As a lad, Hume soon developed the ethic: "If you have an enemy, GET RID...
...during Suez, the industry was actually forced to boost the prices it paid well operators before they would increase production. Then, when production was roaring along, the bottom dropped out of the market leaving the industry holding a heavy surplus of oil that it has been trying to get rid of ever since...