Word: rid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were to get rid of Communist propaganda in the Boston Public Library, you would have to withdraw from it the Boston Post itself because it quotes what Stalin has said on various occasions . . . The oversimplified position that you can just throw out all Communist propaganda by a wave of the hand ... is not a simple solution. It is a simpleton's solution...
...candidates are alike in having had the usual childhood diseases and having had their tonsils out. Ike has got rid of his appendix; Adlai still has his. Neither has had any other major surgery: the nearest approach to it was removal of a Stevenson kidney stone last June, without cutting. Each has had a touch of bursitis in one shoulder...
...simplest and most effective answer is to rid exam schedules of Fogg altogether. Seldom used as it is, the Museum serves only when exams for a large enough number of big courses overflow the University's other auditoriums. Now, however, Harvard's latest monument to concrete and glass offers two new halls, one holding two hundred examgoers, the other one hundred and fifty...
...realization now comes to me that this is truly a damning of the present Administration for its unwillingness to rid our Government of subversives . . . The only right way to end "McCarthyism" is to vote for Eisenhower and rid the Government of those elements that have created a need for "McCarthyism...
...solution, since throttling the, extremes would inevitably threaten the moderates' freedom as well. The answer is the simple one that a democracy has always afforded to citizens: counterpressure, provided by the majority, only public realization of freedom's worth in education all public pressure to protect that freedom can rid communities of super-patriot footholds...