Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...battle today is not between children and parents; the battle is between society on one side and families on the other, and we've got to reorder things so that human values can again get some recognition. I have a great deal of sympathy for the anger and frustration that are reflected in the Women's Liberation movement. Not only are women discriminated against in the so-called man's world, but they have now been deprived of prestige in their role as women. It used to be that a mother would get recognition in her neighborhood...
...receivers he covers, he figures to be a pro starter in his rookie season. Scott's career statistics at Kansas State tell all: 121 tackles, 67 assists, 3 fumble recoveries, 25 passes broken up and 12 interceptions. As one pro recruiter puts it: "He knows how to get where he's going before the ball does...
...Airlines alone will show a deficit of up to $65 million. The industry predicts even bigger losses in 1971 and 1972, although it has made stringent economies. The number of flights has been reduced, and United even saved $250.000 a year by eliminating macadamia nuts on most runs (passengers get peanuts instead...
...starts by 59% from January to November. The main force behind the housing rebound, however, has been an astonishing rise in federal subsidies and loans. About one-third of the houses and apartments built this year received some federal subsidy, and next year close to half of them will get aid from Washington...
...dependence on the "private, mythmaking faculty" by which people dramatize their existence in a mass society. It is a kinship with Dickens as well. In the 1970s more than ever, the feeling he once voiced in a letter seems hauntingly familiar: "I don't seem able to get rid of my spectres unless I can lose them in crowds...