Word: rids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Class. Applegate and his companions had seen so little of China that they were little help to correspondents trying to check up on reports of British Labor Party Leader Attlee's group. But when a reporter asked whether the Communists had rid China of flies, as Attlee's party had said, Applegate, Dixon and Krasner guffawed. They said that their cells were vermin-infested, and killing flies and bugs was one of the few ways they passed their time. Applegate once counted 412 insects squashed on the walls of his cell...
...Henry Ford never liked outside stockholders in his company. He quarreled bitterly with them from 1903 until 1919, when he paid $75 million to get rid of them once and for all. But since his death in 1947 automen have often heard rumors that Ford Co. stock would be put on the market. Each time, the rumors were false. Last week the rumor was going around again, and this time Henry Ford II conceded that it was "pretty reliable." However, said Henry Ford II, "the stock which may be put up for sale is owned by the Ford Foundation...
...Reds controlled one-third of Italy's 2,735 communes. In those perilous postwar years, De Gasperi was a genius at compromise. His Cabinet had Communists and right-wingers; seven times it fell, and seven times he patiently rebuilt another coalition. Not until May 1947 did he finally rid his Cabinet of Communists. His smashing triumph in the 1948 elections (with powerful backing by the U.S.) was widely recognized as a significant cold-war victory. A passionate believer in Europe, he was convinced that Italy could only achieve itself as part of a united Europe...
...body is stunted and crippled; his reedy heron's legs are too frail to carry him, and he can use only two fingers at the end of his wizened right arm. When Africa was darkest, such human culls as Sam Songo were staked out for the leopards to rid them from the tribe. But Sam was allowed to live and to learn to carve living figures in stone with those two fingers and his good left...
...playmate, especially with human tidbits. By pretending to be helpless far offshore, he sometimes attracts a rescuing fisherman, whose extended arms are nipped off by the waiting shark. When the fisherman pitches into the water, Manidou gets the rest of him. Guinéo, who hates to study, gets rid of his tutor by taking him out for a row, pulling the boat's plug and letting Manidou handle the rest. Only Mama is really shocked by her son's tricks; daddy and grandparents can hardly conceal their admiration for the little fellow...