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Word: got (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Next morning the two men got down to business in the baroque U.S. Embassy. Each gave a formal 35-min. presentation of his country's global views. After breaking for lunch, and a recuperative nap for the ailing Soviet leader, the two men met again at the U.S. Embassy for almost two hours of discussion on the subject that had brought them together in the first place, the SALT II treaty to restrict long-range weapons. The Americans were struck by Brezhnev's stamina during the talks. Said one top U.S. official: "He really seemed to be thoroughly in control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Khorosho,' Said Brezhnev | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

What have you got on this guy?" Police departments have always asked this question of each other, and very often of the FBI, as they look for information that will help an investigation. In 1956 some departments, frustrated by their inability to get data from the cautious FBI, began setting up an organization known as the Law Enforcement Intelligence Unit to share their files on a more systematic basis. Almost unknown to outsiders, L.E.I.U. has since acquired a membership of 227 state and local police departments in the U.S. and Canada. Now, like the FBI a few years ago, L.E.I.U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Cops' Co-Op | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...bugged, and the girls are kept under constant surveillance. Mail is censored. Errant inmates are given "licks" with wooden paddles; serious offenders, like those who try to run away, are tied up or put in solitary confinement "lockups" for days. "We're not dealing with kids who got caught fooling around in church choir practice, you know," says Roloff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Doing It His Way | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...concrete. Two telephones, a radio and a television, as well as the periscope, connected him to the outside world. "I'm just one person, but I'm telling it like it is," he would say. "We don't have a gas shortage, we've got a gas wastage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Americana, Jun. 25, 1979 | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...ante up a last-minute supplemental entry fee of $20,000 to make his colt eligible for the race. Coastal thus became the first supplemental entry ever to win the Belmont Stakes. As for Spectacular Bid, Jockey Franklin offered no excuses. "My horse choked," he said. "He just got tired in the last eighth of a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Triple Crown Denied | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

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