Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throwing in his hand, William Randolph Hearst Jr. got rid of a hopelessly losing proposition and picked up 25% of what should become a profitmaking business. Hearst did have to pay one heavy price: all U.P. employees will be kept on; most I.N.S. employees will be dropped...
...modishly coiffed, was not about to leave Congress, where she had become a carping critic of Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. When her intention to run again became clear, Andy Knutson backed away from his original ultimatum, said Coya could stay in Congress if only she would get rid of her handsome executive secretary. Bill Kjeldahl, 30. Said Andy: "The decisions made in Coya's office are not hers, but Kjeldahl's." But Coya Knutson was having none of that, either. Kjeldahl would stay, cried she. Her life was her own-and she aimed to live...
...book Orpheus at Eighty because it recounts Verdi's long life in a series of flashbacks showing the old composer looking back on the struggles and triumphs of his stupendous career. It is Sheean's best book since Personal History (1935), and if its prose could be rid of repetitions and the parentheses that break out half a dozen to the page, it would be the best introduction to Verdi and his music in the English language. Clearly a labor of love, it is at once a fine tribute and a history of bitter wounds and infinite distress...
Normalize to Neutralize. Careful not to let his tongue outrace his ambition, Nasser added prudently: "The Arab people intend to get rid of every foreign domination. They believe in non-alignment." He had need of a little help, as well as loud hurrahs, from the Russians. His arms debts (including those he inherited by absorbing Syria) were strapping him: not only is his cotton crop mortgaged to Russia for years, but Russia is dumping Egyptian cotton elsewhere at lower prices, thus debasing its value...
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ARE RIGHT IN FEARING THAT A STRONG SECTARIAN TREND WOULD ENCHROACH ON THEIR FREEDOM. The sectarianism in Memorial Church is but a symptom of something much deeper and more widespread. To get rid of it there and have it continue vigorous among Harvard men would be like clipping a few inches off the whiskers of a tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact. And the temper of the sectarian tiger is anything but wholesome now on account of the fear-inspired gloom and emotionalism of current theology...