Word: rids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...student body increasingly reflects the diversity of the country as a whole, it is disturbing that these students should want to separate themselves from the whole. As Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III correctly points out, it is ironic that "while many colleges are trying to get rid of [fraternities], Harvard students are interested in joining them...
...Wolfe's jeremiad, the "puppet-masters" of the American literary scene imported a new pantheon of foreign literary gods -- Jorge Luis Borges, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The "headlong rush" to get rid of realism, Wolfe complains, resulted in statements like that of experimental novelist John Hawkes, "I began to write fiction on the assumption that the true enemies of the novel were plot, character, setting and theme...
Even some of last week's moves were ambiguous. The mass resignation of the 44-member Cabinet was not so significant as it was dramatic, since the Cabinet had been a rubber stamp. Its dismissal, however, did serve to rid Krenz of Premier Willi Stoph, a Honecker loyalist. The dissolution of the 21-member Politburo, and its replacement with a slimmer ten-member body, was far more pointed, since that is where the real power lies. Some of its more notorious hard-liners got the ax, including Stoph; Erich Mielke, head of the despised state security apparatus; and Kurt Hager...
...summer long John Kennedy had brooded, waiting for Nikita Khrushchev to make good on his threat to get rid of "the bone in my throat" -- partitioned Berlin. But he had not anticipated what would happen on that warm August afternoon in 1961 when he set out from Hyannis Port, Mass., on the yacht Marlin loaded with family and his favorite picnic dish, fish chowder...
Since I consider myself a liberal Democrat, I suppose I am allowed to propose a modest change in the system: We should get rid...