Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...caravan of 50 cars descended on her home to persuade her to run for the badly neglected post of state superintendent of public instruction. Since then, she has harassed and goaded governors, both Republican and Democratic. She is a Democrat herself, but when one official told her to "get rid of all those reactionary Republican school directors and you'll get all the money you want," she flatly refused. Says Pearl about her campaign methods: "I have been accused of playing politics. I have. But I absolutely will not play partisan politics...
...example, will have the controlling vote on both the City Council--which must approve all municipal expenditures and improvements--and the School Committee which controls the community's elementary and secondary schools. The Council can also hire and fire the manager; Sullivan might be only too happy to get rid of the incumbent, John J. Curry '19, and install one of his own supporters, 200 of whom crowded the Council chamber yesterday to cheer him on to victory...
...been found wanting-so wanting that 5,400,000 voters cast their ballots for the Communists and gave the Communists increased representation in Parliament. But the bluntest verdict came from a bookseller whose only program was a refusal to pay taxes, and whose only remedy was to get rid of the old gang. "Throw the rascals out!" cried Pierre Poujade-and 2,400,000 Frenchmen gave him their vote in what Poujade himself called "an explosion of despair...
...More than 125 newspapers across the nation ran the book as a serial. When the Detroit Free Press published its series, one distraught father wrote in to describe the plight of his son in high school. "They are trying to expel him," he said, "or in some manner rid themselves of him. You know why? Because he cannot read. How in the hell he got as far as loB ... is beyond my means of comprehension." In Louisville, a mother reported on her third-grader's typewriting: "He typed the letters very easily . . . But after typing the letters...
...teaching a pupil to recognize words as wholes. Gradually, word-recognition became the vogue. "There's no doubt about it," says Elementary School Superintendent Oscar M. Chute of Evanston, 111. "Back in the '30s, some educators decided that phonics were no longer useful, so they got rid of phonics...