Word: fetching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outskirts of the city, we put down the litter and turn back to fetch Father Superior. Most of the ruins are by now burned out. One of us remarks that the pungent smell reminds him of burned corpses...
Governor Stevenson, who once promised the U.S. that Texas would make no separate peace, promptly informed the Shooting Bulls that as soon as the Army had the Far Eastern situation in hand, he would send the Texas Navy to fetch them home...
...Taif the chattering women piled out and into waiting automobiles. Riding past the nose of the plane, each & every one took a bold, veiled look at the Americans, who got a good look too. Then the C-47 went back to fetch the King. Ibn Saud, it was said, right royally enjoyed his first trip aloft...
Gone were the old days when Press Secretary Steve Early would fetch a presidential answer to a routine question (including "what did the President eat for breakfast?"). In Steve Early's chair now was serious, sober, 59-year-old Charles Griffith Ross of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, who does not like to answer personal questions about his boss...
...details about a lynching out of a sour, close-mouthed town official was about to stamp out when in minced the cherubic Woollcott, pencil poised. "Mr. Shallcross," he piped to the official, "I represent the New York Times, which must insist that you take immediate measures to fetch the perpetrators of this wholly unnecessary outrage to book or justice or whatever your quaint custom may be here...