Word: gets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proved ourselves to be good players, able to play with anyone in the country," sophomore Peter Richards said. "We just need to be more mentally up and get our intensity...
While the U.S. has done all it can to get Prince Sihanouk to break with the Khmer Rouge, he has remained their ally since they provide the main military forces for the opposition coalition. The Paris negotiations have been adjourned, having reached a stalemate over whether the Khmer Rouge should play a role in the newly organized government. So far, India is the only non-communist country that has taken a strong stance against the Khmer Rouge...
From the start, Lynn recalls, Vanessa weathered the rackety Redgraves with ego intact: "She was the only one of us who wasn't shy. If someone asked her to get up and sing, it wouldn't have bothered her for three seconds." The family's expectation that Redgrave would go into show business was tempered by her abrupt adolescent growth spurt to an eventual 5 ft. 11 in. She towered over classmates of both sexes and was considered too tall for anything but character parts. Her father had her study ballet so she would move well and tap dancing...
...Some foreign violence does get substantial U.S. media coverage. But typically this is because American corporate or other interests are directly involved -- as when Union Carbide's poison gas cloud killed 2,233 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984 -- or because humanitarian groups arouse American donors and volunteers, as happened with famines in Ethiopia and Biafra. In general, however, the scales are so tilted that Hurricane Hugo, which killed 51 people, got about as much coverage across the U.S. as the 1985 Mexico City earthquake that claimed 20,000 lives...
...sarcastic tone, Gorbachev said, "The machine doesn't work. Get out your old weapons." The Deputies waved the credentials cards traditionally used for voting. Determined as usual to advance perestroika, Gorbachev kept the Deputies after the session for a lecture and a demonstration of how the new system was supposed to work. This time the technicians remembered to turn on the power...