Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other orderlies were drafted on their first night to ride with an ambulance driver to fetch an 83-year-old woman who had broken her hip. The inexperienced, and for the most part unsuccessful driver dashed wildly about the streets of Boston. When they finally arrived at the correct street, by trial and error, they encountered difficulties in removing the heavy, wheeled stretcher from its intricate moorings on the floor of the ambulance, and in twisting it up two flights of tortuously curved Victorian steps. After they accomplished the ticklish task of lifting the old lady to the stretcher...
...Saturdays. In 1939 there were 12,000 dogs on the tracks, now there are 6,000. Most of the retired dogs were not destroyed, but made into pets or put out to stud. Bidding is still keen for good dogs at sales, where a promising pup will fetch 300 to 400 guineas (a guinea is currently worth $4.22). A greyhound pup knocked down for 100 guineas is considered practically a selling plater...
...send to my friend, the cab'net-maker, to fetch it back, Sammy," replied Mr. Weller. "Are you awake...
...little man with the Robert Mantell delivery and the uniform of the British lighthouse service got home last week and shed the first strong light on the Atlantic conference. Nearing the last lap of the return, the crew of the Prince of Wales knew they would fetch Winston Churchill home unharmed. All the ack-acks aboard raised a jubilant barrage. Five hundred-odd miles north of the northernmost tip of Britain's isles, their precious charge went ashore at Reykjavik, capital of Kentucky-sized Iceland...
...Philadelphia last week, without the cargo she had come to fetch for the Emperor of Japan, steamed the Azuma Maru. The cargo which the neat little Japanese freighter sailed without...