Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their belongings. Without incident, two transport planes and 18 helicopters flew them to the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom. The U.N. will continue to report South Korean military imports to the commission, but jubilant South Koreans, who regard the Czech and Polish inspectors as spies, were happy to be rid of them...
...balked at prostitution ("It's against my moral code"). Fearing that they planned to freeze him out, Elkins took the precaution of "bugging" the Portland apartment of the Seattle emissaries with a microphone hooked to a tape recorder. On the playback he heard them plotting "to get rid of me." Elkins told the Seattle boys about his tapes and threatened to use the recordings to expose the plot unless the Teamsters and their underworld allies dropped it. They scoffed at such talk. But when the Oregonian staffers heard about the tapes, they persuaded him to make good his threat...
...County District Attorney William M. Langley and Sheriff Terry Schrunk, were mixed up with the racketeers who were plotting to "open the town." Among other accusations, the Oregonian reported that the plotters had threatened Portland Mayor Fred Peterson with political reprisals by the Teamsters if he did not get rid of his police chief...
Cattlemen prefer to say nothing about their dwarfs and get rid of them quietly. It hurts the value of a herd if too many little monsters are staggering around the range. So no one knows how many there are. Estimates of the proportion of dwarfs in beef breeds have gone as high as 7%. Some unfortunate herds have produced 12%, and the figures might be higher if cattlemen did not conceal their monsters. Considerably less than 12% of dwarfs can bankrupt a cattleman...
...present the atmosphere contains 2.35 trillion tons of carbon dioxide, existing in equilibrium with living plants and sea water (which tends to dissolve it). Up to 1860, man's fires added only about 500 million tons per year, and the atmosphere had no trouble in getting rid of this small amount. But each year more furnaces and engines poured CO2 into the atmosphere. In 1900, the amount was 3 billion tons. By 1950, it was 9 billion tons. By 2010, if present trends continue, 47 billion tons of carbon dioxide will enter the air each year...