Word: fetched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...19th century, sexual deviation involving man, woman or beast could be punished by death. The celebrated trial of Oscar Wilde took place under an 1885 law specifically decreeing that "indecent acts between males in public or private are a criminal offense." The old Draconian laws, however, did not fetch in many offenders: fewer than 100 homosexuals have been convicted annually in Britain in recent years, and the occasional publicized case has evoked more public sympathy for the defendant than support for the prosecution. In fact, the new bill really frees homosexuals from the fear of blackmail rather than from...
...Morality." Lately, the Viet Cong have been trying to recruit more women. Their propagandists argue that the size of guerrilla and hamlet forces could be increased 50% overnight with the proper infusion of womanpower in the fetch-and-carry job echelons. The National Liberation Front has its own civilian association for women, with a complete program of awards, honor rolls and instant good-conduct guides...
...nearly every leading painter of Paris. You name them, Meadows had them-Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Derain, Modigliani, Bonnard, Degas, and on and on. For insurance purposes, they had been appraised by New York Art Expert Carroll Hogan at $1,362,750. On the market, works by such artists might fetch $3,000,000. But, confided Oilman Meadows to his admiring guests, they had cost him "closer to $400,000 than a million," and maybe as little...
...George Papandreou, was dragged out of bed and marched off without even being given time to put on his shoes; he had to carry them along. His leftist son Andreas, sleeping some miles away, was a particular target of the military; they sent eight soldiers and a captain to fetch him. They overpowered his bodyguard, smashed a glass door while breaking into the house and dragged Andreas off in his underpants, his feet bleeding from the glass...
...Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting...