Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that the ideological struggle . . . to rid all believers of religious superstition has receded into the background...
...over its head and withdrew its request. " But the issue was joined. At the hearing, Negroes were split; several testified that there was no sense going all the way across town just to make an issue of Lindley Park. Some white spokesmen argued that the city should get rid of the headache by closing both pools. Last week the city council did even more; it voted (7 to 1) to sell both pools at public auction...
...creampuff-plump President James G. Cross, who had spent union dough lavishly for personal expenses, including upkeep of a girl friend several times convicted as a tart. After studying the testimony, theA.F.L.-C.I.O.'s rock-firm President George Meany ordered the 160,000-member union to get rid of Cross or else. Last week the Bakery Workers' Cross-bossed executive board balked at the order. Meany & Co. promptly suspended the union, sending it to join Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters in exile from the housecleaning united labor movement...
...Democrats plan to run for reelection. Five of these are from the South and the other six--Kennedy, Symington, Mansfield, Chavez, Pastore, and Jackson--seem reasonably sure of reelection. Democrats will probably unseat a few Republican incumbents;--in Arizona, for instance, Governor Ernest MacFarland will likely rid the senate of Barry Gold-water...
...potent drug, chlorothiazide (trade-named Diuril by manufacturers Merck Sharp & Dohme, though not yet released for general prescription use), taken by mouth, can be highly effective as a diuretic, stimulating the body to get rid of excess water, which causes edema (dropsy) in patients with enlarged and failing hearts. Columbia University's Dr. John H. Laragh and Dr. Felix E. Demartini reported that chlorothiazide works well by itself, also increases the effectiveness of other diuretics when given in small-dose combinations. In three cases where no drug worked alone, a combination did the trick. The A.H.A...