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...defense of this Fifth Amendment Communist Army officer." And some two hours after reading his statement for television, McCarthy sent another deletion around to newsmen. The word "now," he said, should be omitted from the sentence: "Apparently the President and I now agree on the necessity of getting rid of the Communists." It was just arrogant Joe's way of stressing the innuendo-and of sinking the blade a little deeper in the area between the shoulder blades...
...Getting rid of farm surpluses, even in the form of gifts, is a tough job, despite the fact that many of the world's people are on the brink of starvation. At home and abroad, farmers and merchants are quick to protest cut-rate sales or giveaway programs that push down local prices. Accordingly, the surpluses have to be distributed outside normal trade channels.-In the U.S. the Agriculture Department expects to give away $170 million worth of surplus food this year to state welfare agencies and school-lunch programs. Now Washington is discussing plans to provide free food...
...while the Council decides on how to get the best people elected, it should also give some thought to getting rid of members who, once elected play hookey. There are three or four such perpetual truants whose absence has, twice in the last month, kept the Council from voting on important business...
...German success also due to the fact that they got rid of obsolete plants and machines through bombings and dismantling and started anew with more efficient ones...
...importance; the only hope he saw for civilization was to have the Asians take over and run things on a simplified basis. Presumably, such a basis would mean hard lines for misfits. The Dean sometimes lashed out at medicine for keeping alive people nature would have got rid of "with perhaps greater wisdom...