Word: gets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...devastation in Cambodia makes it imperative that the United States not give up its well-intentioned relief efforts in the face of the Heng Samrin regime's rhetoric. Carter and Congress must do everything possible to get the relief through and to alert a sadly indifferent world to the carnage that has taken place and to the plight of the millions who are still living--but just barely--in a ruined Cambodia...
Although political disillusionment was prevalent among college students of the 1960s. Mackey says that among his peers, "the tendency was that maybe you could get involved and change things from within rather than reject government itself...
Many brokers and exchange workers stepped over or on demonstrators to get through; others crawled under sawhorse barricades or let police hoist them across the barriers...
...beaches at Lynn--all you see are kids drinking beer. You can't even find a parking place," Joseph Cardile from Randolph, said yesterday. He added that he believes the drinking age should be raised to 21 years because teenagers cannot handle alcohol. "Kids stole my tools to get money to buy booze. I caught them. They don't want to work, they just want to drink booze," he said...
...from a different perspective, saying teenage drinking as well as racial violence are not problems in themselves but manifestations of teenagers' boredom. "So long as everything around here is so stodgy, stuffy and provincial, teenagers are going to seek escapes--they have nothing else to do but get a drink." J. Adams-Stuart said yesterday...