Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Philip was such a slob. At a dressy dinner at Chesterfield House, he gobbled so earnestly at a plate of gooseberries topped with whipped cream that his face was soon lathered. Humiliated before his guests, Chesterfield quipped to Philip's servant: "John, why do you not fetch the strop and the razors? You see your master is going to shave himself." When Philip botched his maiden speech in the House of Commons, Chesterfield finally scrapped the dream that he would ever make a man, or even a manikin of distinction...
Bang & Flashes. But brilliant as he was, Scientist Wood was always a very odd sort of professor. Cooped up in his cluttered laboratory, he would often forget to come to class, and his students were forever having to fetch him ("Oh, yes, yes," he would say, "but just give me a few more minutes here, will you?"). When he did come to class, his lectures were usually a series of explosions, tricks and flashing lights...
...Washington's rainswept Snoqualmie River valley. The first pheasant dropped behind the dog. The second, whirring off into the mist, wheeled at the shot and fell into the brush to one side. The third was brought down just across the river. Then the handler issued a sharp command: "Fetch...
...doctors' orders. The official press had already announced that she would soon submit to an operation-the first hint that she was suffering from more than anemia. At week's end it was reported that one of Evita's doctors had flown to New York to fetch the specialist who would perform the operation...
...Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol. The drug stops the growth of ovaries in pullets, turns them into the fat, tender female equivalent of capons, which fetch a premium price...