Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Miller: Well, I thought they said if we got in an emergency, they gave you a code to let them know...
Although a dozen FBI agents were assigned in January to probe the circumstances surrounding the bank loans, they bypassed Hayes until he had given a series of taped interviews to the Washington Post, which printed them last week. The Atlanta FBI chief immediately got a hotwire telephone call from Washington. Hours later, a pair of agents were on their way to interview the talkative source...
Nonetheless, the French people show little confidence in Barre. The Premier got a 36% approval rating in a poll last week, a drop of 9% in the past year. Clearly, Barre's tough economic remedies will have to be carried out with more sensitivity and imagination if he is to avoid fulfilling a prophecy by Communist Leader Georges Marchais: The people, if not the parliament, will one day reject Barre's policies...
...makers from the town of Cognac, Monnet learned as a youth that masterworks are not accomplished by shortcuts. He deftly summed up this truth: "The great thing about making cognac is that it teaches you above everything else to waitman proposes, but time and God and the seasons have got to be on your side." He began his career as a globetrotting salesman for the family's distillery. Witnessing the chaos and waste of World War I convinced him of the need for international cooperation. By 1916 Monnet had become France's representative in London on the executive...
...personality" −the little moments of makeup-mirror vanity snatched against deadline pressure, the falseness of on-camera performances that must never really look like performances, the psycho logical confusions of pretending to be a real reporter when you know you've been hired because you've got good bones...