Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After completing high school, Teng was one of 92 boys from China awarded scholarships to study in France. Instead of studying, the 16-year-old Teng got a job in a Paris galosh factory. At the same time, he helped out in the offices of a Chinese Communist periodical called Red Light. Its editor was Chou Enlai, who later became Teng's patron and protector. Teng's zeal in carrying out the menial chores of binding and mimeographing the magazine soon earned him the nickname of "Doctor of Mimeography...
...Many large American corporations, including Ford, RCA and Goodyear, announced that they would continue their investments, but not everyone was reassured. Said Robert Parker, president of Taiwan's American Chamber of Commerce: "There's no use pretending that normalization on the terms we got won't hurt. It will." Still, Taipei was partially reassured by Washington's statement that more than 50 accords between Taiwan and the U.S., dealing mostly with economic and cultural matters, would remain in effect...
Nonetheless, the speed with which the Administration accepted the agreement contributed to doubts, even among supporters of normalization, about whether the U.S. got the best of the bargain. Said Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, fresh from spending two weeks in mainland China: "It made me wonder how much the President left on the negotiating table." Probably nothing, in the view of several Asian scholars. "We could have held out," said Harvard's Benjamin Schwartz, "but I doubt that China would ever openly say that it was going to assure the security of Taiwan...
...Brock Trapnell once told a television interviewer. He should know. The black sheep of a distinguished military family (his father was a Navy commander), Trapnell was arrested more than 20 times for robberies and other crimes committed, yet he became so skilled in faking mental illness that he repeatedly got himself hospitalized and then escaped...
...million to the Soviet Union. Three couriers say that they were sent by Jones from the mass death scene with more than $300,000 in cash and letters informing the Soviet embassy in Guyana of the bequest, but abandoned the suitcase of money in the jungle because it got too heavy. The Guyanese government recovered the cash, and the cult's accounts in Panama were frozen. The Justice Department requested that the banks not allow anyone to withdraw the money. Buford's attorney Mark Lane, who once represented the cult, says he also made such a request. Lane...