Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...religious service. Then he went into hiding. The Italians and Nazis were hot after him, and eight times he was forced to seek new shelter. Once he shivered: General von Arnim set up headquarters in the next villa; one night, when he slipped back to the old rectory to fetch some medicine, the Nazis moved into his refuge, and he escaped capture only because friends tipped...
Plans for practical field problems in the Statistical officers' duties are in the hatching stage. We cannot promise air-raids or strafing conditions for you to work through, but it is hoped that something akin thereto can be worked out. Quick, Albert, fetch me my tin hat, our Student Status Report in tardy...
...They fetch the water and carry the towels, they handle sweaty garments and take a lot of good-natured abuse, but they love it. Harvard's athletic managers, as unique a set of characters as you would ever hope to see, go about their tasks as quietly as possible, bothering few people and haunting the H.A.A., looking for team publicity wherever they can find it--all this for a letter and major athletic credits...
...Germans advanced, Moatsie and the other correspondents were evacuated to Kuibyshev. She made Correspondent Quentin Reynolds sweep the floor of her compartment. But things were no better in Kuibyshev itself. The plumbing was terrible. Moatsie shampooed her hair, and the Iranian Ambassador had his servant fetch water from the Volga to rinse it. Moatsie gave in. For months she had struggled against the sex prejudice that had tried to get her out of Moscow. Now, she exclaimed to the press bureau chief: "Do you think I am crazy enough to stay on in a place where there...
...Detroit thousands of trailer dwellers had to fetch oil in small cans from emergency stations. A critical oil shortage was on, but an oil-company official found that only one out of every 3,000 oil furnaces had been converted to coal...