Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other Laborites were disgusted by the demands for Churchill's head. If the Socialists want to get rid of Churchill, said Labor Peer Viscount Stansgate, "I think it's time some cleaner way was found...
Next day Bowles stormed into her office and threatened to get even with her "if I have to stay in [this] county two years." Meanwhile, an unidentified man called on the Platts' landlady, told her she had better get rid of them or "the house might burn down." Race Relations Expert Willis McCall was not impressed by the Platts' ancestry. Said he at an N.A.A.W.P. rally: "There must have been a smoked Irishman in the woodpile...
...head of the ticket, the popular front swept Athens. The popular front's non-Communists had to shout to make their victory orations heard. From batteries of Iron Curtain radios, the Communists started clamoring for national elections in response to "the demands of the masses," to get rid of Premier Papagos and steer Greece on to a neutralist foreign policy. At week's end Papagos decided that the revenge of General Katsotas had gone far enough: the new mayor of Athens, a Papagos spokesman sternly warned, would not be tolerated if his office became "a bailiwick for political...
...Physicist Enrico Fermi, a great man of science who achieved the first nuclear chain reaction and thereby initiated the Atomic Age. This week in Chicago, Enrico Fermi, 53, died of cancer. If he had lived a few years longer, medical techniques growing out of his own discoveries might have rid him of his fatal disease...
...This year we have been more careful in accepting pledges," he explained. "We tried to accept only those who we thought would actually give blood, and not those who signed up just to get rid...