Word: obtained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last member of Congress to be censured was Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954. The last Representative was Thomas Blanton of Texas, who was reprimanded in 1921 for inserting salacious material in the Congressional Record. Blanton also pressured the House Stationery Room to obtain a whisky flask for him-during Prohibition-and then used the flask as an example of the wares available at the Stationery Room...
...hearing about him I really built up a complex against him." Peter felt the same way for a while, but Mama was right. The engagement was announced; then, just to be sure, Liza and Peter waited a full two years before marching into Manhattan's Municipal Building to obtain a marriage license. "We don't believe in jumping into anything," Liza explained. This week they take the big jump in a small ceremony at a friend's Park Avenue apartment...
Students who want to see Yale's best freshman swimming team in history, followed by possibly the best variety in the country, led by Don Schollander, should obtain tickets at 60 Boylston St. before 5 p.m. today. Harvard will also compete in the Saturday afternoon season finale...
...makers. If this is indeed to be a marriage of true minds, both partners have to learn to respect each other's roles, and to accommodate themselves somewhat to the limiting conditions within which the other fellow works. The policy maker has to realize that he cannot demand and obtain instant scholarship; that objectivity and reflectiveness and depth of perception can only be had at the price of some loss in immediate relevance to the policy maker's current concerns; and that a good batting average for a successful scholar is probably a lot lower than...
...echo H. H. Richardson's Trinity Church across Copley Square. But Johnson had bound his new addition with the old through a variety of formal devices: a common cornice line, an identically pitched roof, equally deepset windows. Johnson even plans to reopen a quarry in Milford, Mass, to obtain the same pink granite used in the existing library, which will be sandblasted back to its original...