Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think we shall get the first agreement actually to reduce nuclear weapons. And we shall have gotten it by being very firm. As long as you are always firm in safeguarding your liberty and in defending it, then you do very tough negotiations, watching at each stage that everything you do is verifiable. You don't take anything on trust. The Soviet Union is a closed society and it's much bigger than the United States, so it would be much easier for them to conceal things...
Letting political criminals off the hook is becoming an American addiction. In Watergate the prosecution offered soft plea bargains in return for the truth. It never got the truth. Poindexter has gotten full immunity. If the Senate doesn't get the truth, we should learn our lesson: Don't ask the guilty to tell the truth; send them to jail...
...when DEA agents posing as money launderers infiltrated the U.S. branch of the Colombian drug-smuggling cartel. Over time, the undercover cops won the confidence of higher-ups through efficient, discreet service. And they obtained unprecedented cooperation from authorities in Panama, where many of the drug Mafia's ill-gotten gains were traced. Besides netting hordes of drug traffickers, the coolly efficient agents showed a profit. Operation Pisces made $4.3 million in money-laundering commissions before the DEA wrapped up the operation...
...full house that came out to see Hooker at the Channel on Friday certainly suggested that somebody'd been spreading the word, bringing in the usual Boston button-down types with a sprinkling of brooding hippies and underage punks. This was the first hard evidence I'd gotten of the blues being revived, aside from reading magazine cover stories on "Great Black Hope" Robert Cray. (Blues has recently developed boxing's problem in reverse: a formerly all-Black domain with no up-and-coming young Black players...
...husband realizes this. Monson laughs as he tells a story about a time when he and Granite, the lead dog, had gotten into an accident and Butcher's first reaction...