Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be happy to sit in front of our fireplaces and let [our wives and sweethearts] fetch us Old-Fashioneds and fried chicken. But not, please God, with the look of a trapped and frightened doe, waiting for the blow to fall...
...shall have all the tanks that you can fetch...
...long revues, down to the dancing and the decor. His method never varies: each summer he plows through newspapers and magazines for topical material; each fall he locks himself in to write; each winter his revue runs for two or three months in Montreal and Quebec. The revues now fetch some 130,000 customers - in Montreal ten times the audience of any other show. They cost him a reputed $75,000 to produce, net him around $50,000 profit - and shut down the minute the house falls below 90% of capacity...
...Papandreou State" (the four square miles in the heart of Athens controlled by the Government, with British help), civilians were allowed out only for two hours a day to fetch food and water. Snipers' bullets and bursting shells made it hazardous to venture outdoors. U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh and his staff evacuated the perilously placed Embassy in Queen Sophia Boulevard, moved into the American School of Classical Studies on the much safer slopes of Lycabettus. Food was scarce, even in ELAS areas where merchants' stocks were commandeered and distributed...
...hope it lasts." When 28-year-old Van Johnson steps out to fetch his milk off the doorstep these morings, he runs the chance of finding, as well, some disarming child in bobby socks who has traveled all the way from Idaho or Missouri or Maine just for the meeting. When he goes to take part in radio shows, he is well-hedged by policemen; they are necessary because young people mob him for any souvenir they can lay hands on. Johson's mail, at present, tallies some 8,000 letters a week-the highest mail count...