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Word: got (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they plunge into a dollop of flan with ice cream. They ponder things like advice about Son Jack's grain-elevator business and the guest lists for approaching state dinners; then Rosalynn inevitably asks for the latest information on SALT or the Middle East. At one lunch, Rosalynn got the surprise of her life when the President revealed that just minutes earlier, agreement had been reached with China for normalization of relations, a secret she kept until the announcement the next day. A Rosalynn lunch with Jimmy helped restore tentative cuts in the budget for the elderly. She plugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: Second Most Powerful Person | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...despised Kenneth Bianchi, 27, a security guard in Bellingham, Wash. "Ken doesn't know how to handle women," he snarled. "You gotta treat 'em rough." He spoke crudely of his sexual exploits with women and then said of Bianchi: "Boy, did I fix that turkey. I got him in so much trouble, he'll never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Murderous Personality | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...York but dropped out before finishing. He tried to find a job as a policeman in up state New York and failed. When he moved to Los Angeles in 1975, he sought, again in vain, for police jobs while living with his cousin, Angelo Buono, 44. Finally, Bianchi got a position at a land title company, but he pretended to colleagues that he was an undercover cop on the side. He carried an attache case in which he kept a phony highway patrol man's badge and identification, handcuffs, and photos of nude women. A neighbor recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Murderous Personality | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...make sure Bavas got the point that his antibureaucratic behavior would not be tolerated, the officials ordered him transferred to Philadelphia. Said he: "There's no question in my mind that this is a punitive action." Last week, rather than move, he resigned, observing correctly: "I guess I've got no future as a Government bureaucrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-22 at HEW | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...small measure of what's on the nation's collective mind is the cause that celebrities choose to back. Last week in New York City, the glitterati got together to help buy bulletproof vests for the city's police. The vests are needed-in the past twelve months, six officers have been shot to death in the line of duty-but the financially strapped city claims it cannot afford them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Bulletproof Chic | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

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