Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thieu Bui was better equipped to be assimilated into middle-class American life than most of the 156,000 Vietnamese who are trying to take hold here. He got excellent medical training in Saigon. In 1967-68 he also served as a resident at a West Virginia medical center, where he passed the crucial foreign medical graduates exam...
...answer, once again, is that the rigid imperatives of policy got in the way of bold, forward-looking thinking. "There was a fear around here of self-fulfilling prophecies," says one official privy to the discussions. "There was also a sense that the people upstairs didn't want to be told what to do 'if.' They wanted to be told 'if' wasn't going to happen, and they wanted us to concentrate on making sure it didn't happen." Or as another official puts it, "The support-the-Shah-to-the-hilt policy...
...Gurion used to buy weapons for his underground army, the Haganah. History, he said later, would record that "there was a Jewish woman who got the money that made [Israel] possible...
Penn hockey retread and All-Ivy forward Tom Cullity got the eventual game-winner at 1:42 of the final period, as he tipped a Chris Zimmerman slapshot which Crimson goalie Wade Lau tried unsuccessfully to trap between his pads...
Unfortunately, the paradisical setting of April Sound was marred by a demonic cold front sweeping the southwest. "On Friday during the sponsors' tournament the chill factor was seven degrees so we only played four holes," Ftizgibbons recounts in a taut voice. "We never got to practice...