Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still got a long way to go," says General George Blanchard, commander of the NATO-based U.S. Seventh Army, "but we want troops from the States to come here with just their battle gear and personal belongings. The rest would be waiting for them here; much of it already is." As a result, Haig estimates that the number of U.S. combat brigades that could be rushed to Europe within 30 days has doubled...
...Scott: "He had said I would like it. It is, in fact, a very beautiful story." An hour later, as Scott told it, Thorpe came to his room in a dressing gown and sat down and talked to him about his troubles. Then, Scott said, Thorpe kissed him and "got into bed with me" and began making love. Scott claimed that he did not protest because he thought Thorpe's mother was in the next room and might hear. Scott said that when Thorpe returned again the next morning, following a second nocturnal visit, "I thought that...
That is, if Congress lets him. Even before Carter took office, he got Mississippi's formidable James Eastland, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to agree that federal appeals judges should be nominated by merit commissions. Eastland also promised that his committee would go along with the President's choices. But he balked when it came to the more numerous federal district judges. Instead of a Mississippi commission coming up with five names for a judgeship and the President choosing one, Eastland reportedly told Attorney General Griffin Bell: "I'll hand you a slip of paper...
...council that Carter appointed to do the job is stacked with regulators and headed by Douglas Costle, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Says a high Administration official: "As long as the regulators are regulating themselves, what can you expect? What would happen on the price side if you got the 50 biggest firms together and told them to run the price program...
...achieve these and other appearances, the modern woman can select from an array of contouring creams, blushes, enamels, colors and scents that would have staggered Ophelia or even her own mother, who got by with only basic lipstick and powder. A big cosmetics company today produces around 2,500 shades of nail polish, many with matching lipsticks, of course. Plus different perfumes, colognes, toilet waters and other fragrances to be worn at the supermarket, on the tennis court, when running?yes, when running?when dining, when saying goodnight to her Sweet Prince. Plus unnumbered shampoos, moisturizers, eye shadows, lip glosses...