Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...target has been the 10,000 city hall patronage jobs awarded to the city's 50 ward committeemen on the basis of their performance at the polls. The more votes they bring out, the more jobs they get for friends. When public scolding, sarcasm and humiliation did not force committeemen into line, Calamity Jane, as her detractors also call her, fired or demoted their friends outright. But the younger Daley refused to knuckle under and has emerged as the biggest threat to her drive for total power...
...get revenge on Daley, the mayor has been dropping his allies from the city payroll almost as fast as she can locate them. A score of Daley's precinct captains and city employees have been fired or demoted. The split widened two weeks ago when Daley stunned Chicago pols by announcing that he would run for Cook County state's attorney, potentially the second most powerful political post in the city. Taken by surprise, Byrne scrambled to find someone to run against him. Turned down by her first two choices, who were understandably loath to get caught...
...genitals of prisoners. On a blackboard are inscribed the jailers' instructions to their victims: " 1. You must answer in conformity with the questions I ask you. 2. During beatings or electrocution you must not cry loudly. 3. If you disobey any of my regulations, you will get either ten strokes of the whip or five electric shocks." Said Curator Ing Pech, 52, an electrical engineer who is one of only four known survivors of the death camp: "Everyone here was accused of working for either the CIA or the Soviet KGB. After I received 50 blows to the head...
...went on: "The Russian tactics in Africa are like the tactics of a parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...
...youths. The Chinese press routinely blames the pernicious influence of Mao's widow Jiang Qing (Chiang Ch'ing) and her deposed Gang of Four. In fact, one principal cause is unemployment, particularly among millions of middle-school graduates who turn to street crime or black-marketeering to get some sorely needed cash...