Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christian vision must therefore be translated into terms which will have connotations appropriate to the contemporary context, and this translation has not been accomplished. It must rid itself of what applied only in the ancient world and must come armed against the idolatries of the twentieth century, not the first century...
What worries Jones and other tribal leaders is the lurking threat that, as landowning Navajos outside the reservation get hold of oil-lease money to spend any way they want to, envious Navajos inside the boundaries will insist on getting rid of council control and dividing up the oil income among the individual families. That kind of pressure is already violent among the neighboring Southern Utes: a few weeks ago Indian thugs jumped Southern Ute Council Chairman John Baker, No. 1 opponent of the clamorous share-the-wealth faction, and beat him unconscious...
...connecting-suite neighbor in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel, high-caste Siren Sonoli Das Gupta, 27, wife of an Indian movie director. A delegation from the family of doe-eyed Sonali, mother of two sons, called on Nehru with the obvious purpose of persuading him to rid Sonali of Rossellini, 51. They hinted that Rossellini claimed to be a pal of Nehru's. Neutralist Nehru took sides instanter. "That rascal!" cried he. "Does he say I'm his friend? I barely met him. He's no friend of mine!" Somebody suggested that the family should have...
...press. After Eisenhower's speech on behalf of his foreign and defense programs, the Scripps-Howard editorial conceded for the first time that Eisenhower's reasoning was "difficult to argue against," adding lamely: "All the more reason why major efforts should be made to rid the foreign aid programs of waste, inefficiency anc incompetence...
...soil bank was a compromise from the start. After campaigning for years to get rid of costly, futile, surplus-accumulating price supports, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson was forced in pre-election 1956 to settle for much less flexibility in price-support levels than he wanted. Reluctantly he and the Administration adopted the soil bank, a three-year program of paying farmers to reduce production, with the hope that after 1959 surpluses would be gone, and farmers could get back to a free market. In its favor were plausible arguments about conserving the soil, preventing erosion, etc. But even before...