Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also a lonely misanthrope who saw the world and himself with intolerable clarity. After one three-day binge he groaned to a friend: "To be able to tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories...
...they built workhouses in the worst parts. Youngsters who have come of age since the war have no idea what the workhouses were like, of the dread people felt that they would one day wind up in one. I am proud to have been the minister responsible for getting rid of the workhouses...
...decision last week, CAB thought that one answer would be for Hawaiian Airlines to get rid of its expensive new Convairs. But H.A.L. has flatly refused to do so, said the planes will eventually be cheaper to operate. Says H.A.L. President Arthur D. Lewis: "There is no more reason for continuing to fly obsolete equipment in Hawaii than anywhere else in the United States...
...last week, a Hindu who wanted to get rid of his wife had only to say: "Get thee to thy father's house: I will take another." Hindu .custom permitted polygamy, although it was a general practice only among the rich and among India's 35 million Moslems...
...agencies, found it worked so well that it is now using them in more than half the nation. To help the Government sell a $90 million chunk of its surplus real estate, GSA called in private brokers to find clients and to close sales. Elsewhere, the Government has gotten rid of a whole grab bag of business activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit...