Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Enough of this overnight sensation business. Of course, no one had heard of Boston before their first album came out two years ago. Not even heavy corporate types around the record company, who got interested when this virtually unadvertised debut by an unknown group sold its first million albums. Interest grew keener when Boston doubled those sales, then doubled them again...
...world is full of people who should get the Nobel Prize but haven't got it and won't get it." That statement was made in 1963 by a man well qualified to comment on the awarding of the world's most prestigious scientific prizes: Swedish Chemist Arne Tiselius, a Nobel laureate and former president of the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation. Tiselius' view, widely supported in the scientific community, has now been expanded and documented by a U.S. researcher. In an American Scientist article timed to precede the announcement next month of the annual Nobel awards...
...bargain. They seem to be collateral relatives of the Snopeses. If the bride's sister has not been made pregnant by the groom, then the deed was done by one of his 20-odd barracks mates from the military academy. Her uncle is a fundamentalist minister who got the call from God speaking through a Holiday Inn TV set. Her mother spends much of the wedding day arranging to meet an absurdly romantic uncle of the groom's in a motel across from a Dairy Queen in Tallahassee...
After the eleventh round, Ali took stock. "Am I winning?" he asked his seconds. Back came the reply: "You're way ahead." And Trainer Angelo Dundee added, "Just sock him-sock him!" In Spinks' corner, one of his handlers frantically urged: "You've got to fight your fight. You're fighting his fight...
Halfback Wayne Moore got the drive started with an 18-yd, jaunt around right end which only foreshadowed what turned out to be by far the best day of his Harvard career (97 yards on the surprisingly low total of five carries). With the ball on Harvard's 35, Brown then hit tight end Paul Sablock all alone on a crossing pattern to bring the ball into Columbia territory...