Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...managed to do just the opposite. He recognized no "characters" in Shakespeare, only "words [that] seemed to hang in the air like feats of magic." He was only 16 when he landed the job of "picture chaser" on the Chicago Daily Journal. He was "sent forth each dawn to fetch back a photograph . . . usually [of] a woman who had undergone some unusual experience...
...Fetch along the camera...
...Lilburn had murdered his manservant George with an ax. Then, before the terrified eyes of his younger brother Isham and the other slaves, the body was thrown on the fire, the flesh burned off, the bones gathered and buried. What was young George's crime to fetch such dire punishment? He had broken a pitcher that had been prized by the boys' dead mother...
Americans had better start looking in the attic: grandfather's old glass paperweight is having a big boom in the art world. Rare old specimens fetch as much...
...National Iranian Oil Co. has signed 25 sales contracts with Italian, Dutch, Japanese, German, Indian and Pakistani companies. Iran expects to export 1,000,000 tons of oil this year. By next year, Iran hopes to boost its sales to 8,000,000 tons of crude and refined, to fetch $70 million...