Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script, the joke was not nearly so funny as it must have seemed on paper or in real life. But it did make the 1,600-year-old hero the most popular mummy in Brooklyn. As callers swarmed on him, Dr. Cooney explained: "We still can't get rid of it. We've had requests for it from all over the world, and it would take a Solomon to make a decision. Also, as a matter of fact, I'm getting rather fond of it." But when a colleague suggested that the museum display...
...Works. Government is the country's biggest business, and the Treasury takes in so much money that it actually has a problem spending it. In the last fiscal year, expenditures came to a record $1.1 billion, but income (60% from oil) reached a record $1.6 billion. To get rid of it all, the government depends on lavish public works totaling 57% of the budget. Grafters do their bit to balance the books by taking from 10% to 30% on contracts...
...inherit and share the humane and religious culture of Europe must examine our collective conscience to determine if we are doing our best to meet the grave threat to our free institutions. I believe that we must rid ourselves of certain false habits of thought of which we have all been more or less guilty...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. verdict: out. Gruff George Meany let it be known that the door would be open for the Teamsters' return after expulsion if they should get rid of Hoffa. Nonetheless, the delegates were well aware that their decision might plunge Big Labor into a near civil war as they trudged out of the Convention Hall to a tune barked out by the organ: Anything Goes...
...Bishop of Rochester, "than that which emanates from homosexual practice. There are such things as sodomy clubs. There was one in Oxford between the wars and another in Cambridge, which shamelessly sported a tie, [but] I cannot believe with the most reverend Primate that the best way of getting rid of these clubs is to indulge them...