Word: got
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neighbor reported them as suspicious to the police-who did nothing. Shortly after lunch, Elbrick left for the embassy. He never arrived. His Cadillac swung into a narrow street, a red Volkswagen swerved to a halt in front of it, and a blue one pulled up behind. Three gunmen got in the car and drove on to Rio's 2,300-ft. Corcovado Peak, apparently chloroforming the ambassador along the way. At the mountain, the kidnapers carried the ambassador to a waiting Volkswagen and sped off, leaving his chauffeur behind unharmed...
...were few dramatic successes for the Viet Minh during the war years, and Ho, on a journey back into China, was jailed by a Nationalist warlord. He spent a year in prison, finally won his freedom and promptly began seeking support from American elements then in South China. He got in touch with an extraordinary number of U.S. officers, skillfully promoting his cause. His growing reputation led the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) to make contact with Ho in 1945 in the jungles along the China-Viet Nam border. Under the code name "Lucius," Ho provided...
...trucks loaded with troops rolled through Tripoli, spearheaded by British-made Centurion tanks. Swiftly, soldiers surrounded army headquarters, the security police building, the Royal Palace and the national radio station. Teleprinters in the national news agency fell silent. The borders were sealed tight, and at the airports, controllers got orders to suspend all air traffic indefinitely...
...appointed one of Ghana's most distinguished judges to head an election commission. There were triple-sealed tin ballot boxes and acid baths for destroying unused bal lots. A major reason for Busia's over whelming majority was that both par ties appealed for tribal support - and got it. The Akans, among whom Busia is a royal prince, are four times as nu merous in Ghana as the Ewe tribe, to which his adversary Gbedemah belongs...
...neat package, happen to be Writer-Comedienne Elaine May, who is now going into moviemaking in a big way. What's more, says Matthau, Elaine is "a tough little lady. Deviate by one single comma, and you find out who is in supreme authority." So how come he got into the movie in the first place? "A little fellow who may or may not have been a producer convinced me to do it," deadpanned Matthau. "I never saw him again. Maybe Elaine...