Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea of the ramifications. I propose a counter-fund to provide legal counsel for husbands who may themselves revert, in a fit of pique, to the matrimonial-jungle law of divorce-by-firearms. Let's get this thing rolling before the girls realize that they now can rid the house of a mate as quickly and economically as kitchen garbage...
...Colonel Joop Warouw, Indonesia's military attache in Peking, and Lieut. Colonel Ventje Sumual, commander of the rebellious Northern Celebes area. Warouw sought out Sukarno in Japan's state guest house. Warouw's account of the interview (as relayed by Sumual): "I told him to get rid of the Reds or quit, himself. He reproached me for these words, and asked if I had forgotten our past comradeship. I reminded him I once saved his life in Surabaya during the war against the Dutch, but told him: 'You must make a decision...
...properties to support imports of about 9,000,000 stems a year, about 35% of United's imports in 1957. Managerial personnel must also come from United. The decree restricts United from acting as a processor or jobber with in the U.S., and orders it to get rid of its holdings in International Railways of Central America, which owns the main railroad in Guatemala and El Salvador...
...shot: "John, you give us the learned and scholarly explanation-either that, or give us your own." The panel differed in its advice to a woman who wrote in about a semantic quibble with her husband, but Groucho cleared it up fast: "My suggestion is that she get rid of her husband." He dubbed Professor Evans "Bergie." After the guest expert, in the manner of his own show, kept asking whether letter writers were "married or single." Brown challenged him on his "obsession" with sex. Retorted Groucho: "It's not an obsession; it's a talent." As Evans...
...Argentina, struggling to clean up the mess left by Juan PerÓn, could face its first free post-PerÓn general elections this month without the nagging threat of interference from the ousted dictator operating in plush exile in Perez Jiménez' Caracas. Colombia, lately rid of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, could get on with its rebuilding, proud of having set a good example and with fresh assurance that democracy holds the brightest promise. And the U.S., deeply involved in developing Venezuela's fabulous oil reserves, would be free of the necessity of doing business...