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Word: gets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When things break down there's going to be an initial surge of people from the cities. They'll kill you for a can of sardines ... You should band together with a few other families, because you're going to need all the firepower you can get. If you have a nine-or ten-year-old kid, teach him how to shoot ... Get yourself a good guard dog. And if worse comes to worst and you run out of food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

This is a Caucasian meeting only. We'll get together with other races elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: Festival of the Fed-Up | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...teenager nurses his first automobile. Kennedy will hastily grab a rag to wipe a thumbprint off a chrome fitting or to polish the brass. Once Ethel dropped a deviled egg on the teak deck. Kennedy frowned as she wiped up. "I'll bet we don't get invited back tomorrow," she murmured to a companion. She was right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...will guarantee a bigger turnout of Democratic voters in November and a stronger commitment to the party's nominee among those who do turn out. Says Kentucky Senator Wendell Ford: "It's like cats in the night. You think they are fighting and killing each other, but all you get later on is more cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

...willing to live in the White House for four more years." The point, said a Carter operative, is to test whether Kennedy has "the stomach to go through the humiliating, deflating experience of fighting for the nomination." Says another Carter aide of Kennedy: "He's going to get clawed. He's going to bleed, and then he's going to start dropping in the polls." Carter, who has already made public claims that he is not a man who panics, recently told a staffer, "Kennedy has no idea what he's in for." If not, the Senator has only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Kennedy Challenge | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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