Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaders were drafting an assault on the visit, including a condemnation of President Eisenhower for issuing the invitation. Weary (40 & 8-playboys near his hotel suite had given him a restless night) and limping (a bump on his knee had turned into a painful case of bursitis), Nixon nonetheless got in his licks. A burst of applause greeted his statement: "It [the Khrushchev trip] could contribute to the chance that we can settle our differences without war, and it is for this reason I believe the visit deserves the approval of the American people...
...first year, rose to levels ($268,000 in 1958) that provided plow-back capital and paid dividends. Mechanic George Foerstner, who designed the colony's beer coolers, began making refrigerators and home freezers, and bought radio-TV time to sell the wares. By 1950, when his business got big enough to need more capital, he got Iowa financiers to pay Amana $1,750,000 for the plant. The money helped boost Amana Society's original $50 stock to its present value: $3,600 a share...
...troubles. He had wife troubles. Pretty Margaret Ann Lockwood, 28, gathered up her children-René, 2, and ten-month-old Robbie-and marched into the Miami tax collector's office to demand return of her husband's paycheck. Says she: "I told them Robbie had just got out of the hospital, where he was treated for acute anemia, and we needed the money for medicine. They wouldn't listen. They're rather coldhearted and impersonal down there." But Margaret Lockwood had a plan of action: she planted herself in a chair and announced she would...
...process they have met with little effective political opposition. Although more liberal in other matters, the largely British-backed United Party generally supports Prime Minister Verwoerd right down the apartheid line. High-minded little groups such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party have got nowhere...
...got it. Overnight all 1,000-and 500-rupiah notes were arbitrarily cut to one-tenth of their value (though smaller bills were not changed); 90% of every bank deposit over 25,000 rupiahs was frozen, so that the money could be seized for obligatory long-term loans to the government, and banks were closed for two days to straighten out their accounts and report to the government. A new exchange rate of 45 rupiahs to the dollar was proclaimed. All this was done to the accompaniment of denunciations by Sukarno of "vulture capitalists." Added he: "Whoever scoops up wealth...