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