Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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January 15: Carter wins Iowa precinct caucuses, getting 1143 votes to Kennedy's 853. California governor Jerry Brown gets 25 votes and claims a moral victory because he only opened campaign headquarters in Des Moines two weeks prior to the caucuses.
A: There's really a very simple way of getting into the Met as an extra: to find out the name of the assistant stage manager, who does the hiring, and to call him up and ask him.
But life goes on, doesn't it? After the war wound down and affirmative action was getting in gear, New Lefters faced three logical alternatives: terrorism, the hippie life, or local political organization. I stayed happily hippie until my running battle with the Nixon-bolstered American Gestapo (the DEA) took...
A corollary thought is that the U.S. must avoid getting tied too closely to anti-Communist "strongmen" who are detested by their own people. Says Selig Harrison: "We should not be so committed that we become hostage to political fortune. We should have contact with all the forces in these...
The fighting began at 7:30 in the evening, according to the U.S. State Department, with Soviet troops and weapons deployed in key locations of Kabul. In a 3½-hour battle for the radio station, Soviet troops using armored personnel carriers knocked out two Afghan tanks and took a...