Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...celebration of Panama's independence day that got destructively out of hand in a frenzy of anti-U.S. manifestations similar in tone to the current vocal outbursts in Cuba...
John Stotler and Eugene Lipkowitz drove a Corvette to victory in the Fall Rally of the Babson Institute Sports Car Club. The contest was run over more than 90 miles of backwoods roads where the majority of the entries got lost...
...similar competitive careers have more cholesterol in their blood, shorter clotting time and more heart-artery disease than men of more relaxed temperaments, in less exacting jobs (TIME, Nov. 3, 1958). This was true even when the tranquil men ate as much animal fat, smoked as much, and got as little exercise as the climbers. Dr. Friedman suspected that taut emotions worked on the arteries through hormones. But which? And was it a 24-hour process, or did it happen mainly during the gogetters' working hours...
...Ears. The family skated on the edge of poverty. When it moved to Port Huron, Mich., twelve-year-old Tom got a job as a news and candy butcher on the daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped...
...years of the Reconstruction, Edison drifted from Ontario to Tennessee, living in poor boardinghouses and working in shabby Western Union offices, where he rigged up devices to electrocute roaches and rats. When he was 22, Edison landed in New York without a cent. He borrowed a dollar and got a job with a company that manufactured primitive stock tickers. As a repairman, Edison witnessed the 1869 Wall Street panic, when the "Erie Railroad Ring" tried to corner the nation's gold supply. As the crowd surged wildly about him-a prominent banker went mad and had to be restrained...