Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once highly touted scheme to herd city dwellers as well as peasants into the communes. And he was clearly fearful that China's hard-pressed citizens in the cities might begin to ask why, if the countryside was producing such vast quantities of food, their rice bowls got no fuller. "It is also possible," warned Chou in what would have been heresy in a lesser official, "that output increases of certain industrial and agricultural products-particularly certain agricultural products-may in one particular year be lower than the previous year...
...Good God!" said God. "I've got...
...letter slot in Amiel's door and they exploded in the hall. He went to the open window, glimpsed five boys and two girls running laughing down the street. Said Amiel later: "I saw only silhouettes. I didn't recognize any of the children. Suddenly I got the idea of surprising them or frightening them with a shot. I fired haphazardly. I never intended, not for a moment, to kill anyone...
...father of the dead student, Eugène Rolland, 52, a bank official, could not be comforted by his wife or his remaining son, 14-year-old Michel. He considered the verdict an "affront," complained that some of the witnesses had hinted that Alain got only what he deserved, railed against the "bandit" Amiel, whose life was supposedly dedicated to children and who had betrayed his trust...
...cried the Dutchman when he saw Sooi, "have you got a license to import those pigs?" Retorted Sooi: "I am on Belgian soil-Hertog soil." It soon turned out that in a way he was right: in their treaty of 1843 Holland and Belgium had decided that the land in question was Dutch, but because of an error of a sleepy clerk, it was listed as Belgian-as Sooi subsequently proved in court...