Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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White House aides reacted to Brown's call as though they were receiving a visit from Count Dracula. In an effort to blunt any political benefits to Brown, they quickly got on the phones and invited to the meeting all 45 members of the California congressional delegation plus the speaker of the state assembly and Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley...
...praise or censure. Some drivers offered station owners bribes of $10 to $20 for a full tank; others bought bootlegged gasoline for $6 per gal. or hired people to wait in line for them at $3.50 an hour. Johnny Rodgers, a professional football player, told a reporter that he got so impatient at waiting in his Rolls-Royce for gas that he bought the service station. Said he: "I bought it for my friends' convenience...
...Orleans after six federal judges argued that they feared kidnapings and other threats once their wealth was known. Despite that order, eight members of the Supreme Court filed their reports. Justice Lewis Powell Jr., who reported his net worth at $1.3 million when he was confirmed in 1971, got a 30-day extension be cause of illness...
There were these two American pilots from Houston-that much seems certain. One was William Spradley, a quiet, popular bachelor normally employed as an engine driver with the fire department. The other was Roy McLemore, fiftyish, short, fat and a sometime singer of country music. On April 29 they got into a twin-engine plane at a small airport near Miami and headed south. So far, so good...
...next night, McLemore got his captors to take him to a phone. He called Everitt and said that the whole trip had actually been a bungled dope run planned in advance through a contact in Houston. The pilots were to pick up 1,500 Ibs. of marijuana and fly it to Lafayette, La. McLemore said he had written a bad check for $100,000 to his captors, and "this is probably the only thing keeping me alive." He indicated he would try to escape. "Just keep your fingers crossed and I'm going...