Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There were a lot of intellectual bullshitters. We got rid of them...
...GOT INTO a lot of high school organizing. The Collective decided that it should be in white working class areas...
Warning. Thirteen days before Pueblo sailed from Japan on her mission, the National Security Agency, the Government's giant cryptography and communications intelligence center, urged that more "protective measures" be taken for the ship. The recommendation never got past Commander-in-Chief Pacific headquarters. Another copy of the message, addressed to the Chief of Naval Operations, was lost in the Pentagon. Once Pueblo's plight was known, it took Navy officials in Japan more than 40 minutes to reach the Fifth Air Force headquarters in Japan by telephone. The two commands had failed to establish emergency communication procedures...
...idea that finds few advocates today, although it is precisely what Shakespeare had done. None of Chekhov's plays was fully understood and appreciated at its first performance, and he was repeatedly plagued with self-doubts. On occasion he vowed never to bother with the stage again. And he got into heated interpretational conflicts with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, the two heads of the celebrated Moscow Art Theatre, whose influence still plagues Chekhov's works...
...least a dozen widely known translations of The Three Sisters, but none of them was selected for this production. Kahn is using a version by Moura Budberg, of whom I know nothing at all. Her translation is viable enough, though there are a few things she has not got quite right, and at times some dictional touches that seem a bit too modern for a late-nineteenth-century milieu...