Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scoops are to be found here; no lids get ripped off anything. Strout watches the men--scarcely a woman makes it into the text--who are running things and wonders about them and about what they will do next. The columns are breezy and interesting, 800 weekly words offering a glance at an issue or a man. It is a measure of Strout's talent that he can use that most pretentious of devices--first person plural--and still display a friendly and approachable, yet always impressive intellect...
...worried about crowds," he said, when one knowledgeable reporter from Fast Food World asked him about bottlenecks at the cash register in a restaurant that expects to deal with hundreds of customers an hour. "If we get swamped, we'll just open up another unit down the street. That's called camelizing," he added...
...They will lose, but they'll get some good experience," James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, said yesterday...
Before the tests were re-introduced, college admission was based largely on political connections and correct ideology. Important bureaucrats pulled rank to get their children into the universities. The situation has improved since then, but the system is still not completely fair...
...this high-level politicking is far from the minds of the students themselves. Like their American counterparts, they are unable to think of anything but their test scores and whether they can get ahead in the system. With only five per cent of the applicants getting places in college, competition is fierce and anxiety abounds...