Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last year for congressional campaigns and hopes to funnel $250,000 into campaigns next year. He sees the possibility of winning support from 41 Senators for an antiabortion amendment by 1981. Says he: "We would then launch a filibuster, and we would shut down the Government until we got the amendment...
...refugees so far, but is reluctant to take more. The U.S. had hoped to encourage the Soviet Union to lean on the Vietnamese to ease up on their ethnic Chinese minority. President Carter broached the subject to Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev at Vienna two weeks ago, but got nowhere...
...that Khan got his chance to get into the gas centrifuge plant at Almelo. Owned and operated by a consortium called Urenco, it was administered jointly by Britain, West Germany and The Netherlands. Khan had first come to Holland in 1963 at the age of 27 to enroll in the prestigious Technical University of Delft. He performed well, both there and, later, in the doctoral program at Belgium's Catholic University in Louvain...
...hours, the stalemate continued. Every time the whaler angled close enough to the fins for a shot, one of Greenpeace's four inflatables would dodge into its way. The contemporary Ahab was forced to hold his fire lest he hit the protesters. Finally, after two misses, the captain got off his shot when one fin surfaced directly in front of the catch boat. It was a painfully slow demise for the beast; to minimize the danger to the protesters, Eythorsson had removed the explosive cap from the harpoon. Cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof of the grisly action: "The creature...
...took it as a stamp of approval for cubo-futurism, suprematism, constructivism and the other isms that the ferment of Western art had helped set off. In their enthusiasm to create a new culture that would be a synthesis of modernist fragmentation, folk art and dialectical materialism, the artists got more from looking at Lenin's works than he did from theirs. "I do not understand them," Lenin complained. "I do not experience any pleasure from them...