Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a seemingly irrational act as the theft of a locomotive, I discovered that in meeting the prescribed quota of ton-kilometers-per-engine hauled, the harassed Soviet railroad official indeed stood to gain by having an extra and unaccounted-for one up his sleeve. Ironically, this locomotive got abducted before my men had a chance to change its axles to the wider track of the Russian railroads-as her crew must have found out when the narrower European standard tracks ended some 40 kilometers inside Russia...
...Cabinet is heavily weighted with men of business backgrounds. Three got rich in the construction industry: Massachusetts Governor John Volpe
...cashier in a paper mill. Both boys went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both excelled as law students. They each married relatively young, Rogers to Adele Langston,* a classmate at Cornell Law, who gave up her own career to rear three sons and a daughter...
Miss Wiliamson's remarks were corroborated by a white student who, expressing her own indignation, commented, "The hunger strike threat [of the previous spring] got people...
...Harvard does not need the funds from tuition, a topic to be taken up in a future CRIMSON feature page. The second reason is "inheritance and nurture." The present Dean of Admissions states "we turn down many 800's. He wanted interesting and varied people. (Which 800's usually got turned down? Those from Choate?) This implies preppies are more "interesting and varied people...