Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such circumstances, a way can sometimes be found. The officials got the downtown Plaza Motor Hotel to rent nine of its ninth-floor rooms for the use of 18 prisoners-most of whom were guilty only of misdemeanors. Cost: $22.50 per prisoner per day. The county paid $17 a day per room, plus $5.50 for meals for each of the inmates. While only one of the 254-room hotel's regular customers complained about the situation, an insurance company threatened to cancel the hotel's policy. What to do? The authorities simply released 25 prisoners on personal bonds...
...state of Maryland has long believed $25,000 a year in salary was plenty for its Governors (before 1967, they got only $15,000). Though the Lieutenant Governor, attorney general and comptroller have all been getting $44,856, the state seemed to feel that the Governor would somehow be demeaned if he got a similar stipend...
...Israeli settlements in the Sinai, he answered: "What do you want? I am only responsible for Israel's security, not its sanity." Early in March, when he was in Washington negotiating yet another big Israeli request for U.S. arms ($13.5 billion worth over the next nine years), he got into a widely reported transoceanic squabble with his boss; he told Begin that he would resign if Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon was allowed to proceed with work on some new settlements on the West Bank against his own orders. Begin agreed to stop the work, but later grumbled to some...
Carlo Maria Giulini, as he got ready to take over his post as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic: "I always think I am a very small man. When I shave myself, I look in the mirror and see behind me Beethoven and Brahms...
John Travolta snagged that too. Just took a stroll down the Brooklyn asphalt, and midblock he had the street tucked neatly under his arm. By the time he got to the corner he had walked away with the turnaway hit of the season, second only to Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1978 grosses. Saturday Night Fever has started Travolta along a yellow-brick show-biz road that reaches out of sight, raised discomania to a national craze and made superstars of a likable rock group called the Bee Gees for the second, or maybe it's the third...