Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deadlocked, and Judge Turner declared a mistrial. This week Dr. Waddill, who is also being sued for $17 million by Mary Weaver, returns to court to learn whether he will be tried all over again. The jurors, however, are finished. The day after the mistrial was declared, Kathy Davis got married, with four of the other jurors in attendance at the ceremony in the backyard of her father's home...
...heels of the late April student protests against the Harvard Corporation's decision not to divest itself of stock it holds in companies operating in South Africa. Raitt's reaction was very much in character with her direct, communicative style. She said, "Great. It's about time people got off their ass at Harvard. I think it's great. That's the one thing I missed--a lot of political involvement. In the years that I was building up my career, that seemed to fall by the wayside, and not it's real nice that I'm in a position...
...played second base for the White Sox in 1967 after Al Weis got hurt by Frank Robinson...
...President to break the deadlocks, to rally support for his programs (or at least for the ones we like). If chauvinists got as far as they did in trying to defeat the Panama Canal treaties, we blame Carter for not rousing the country behind his proposals. If the Midwestern growers or the Western truck farmers are unhappy with Carter's food or water policies, we blame him, not necessarily for the policies but for somehow not soothing those interests...
...three military men who actually led the putsch got important portfolios in Taraki's 21-member Cabinet: Air Force Colonel Abdul Kadir became Defense Minister; Lieut. Colonel Mohammed Rafi, whose tanks spearheaded the palace assault, was named Public Works Minister; and Major Mohammed Aslam was designated Communications Minister and Second Deputy Prime Minister. The remaining appointees were civilians, among them Hafisullah Amin, a onetime Columbia University student, who was named Foreign Minister, and Amahita Pratebsad, who as Director of Social Welfare becomes Afghanistan's first woman minister. To broaden the new faction's base outside Kabul...