Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further. It took the surgeon just over an hour to cut out six inches of Grimes's cancerous gullet and sew a plastic tube into its place. Within a month his patient, back on a soft diet, had begun to recover from the effects of starvation and to gain back some of the 40 pounds he had lost. Last week, still at the hospital, but spry and full of jokes about his lack of front teeth, Patient Grimes was looking forward to a Christmas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings...
...been our country's gain...
Larry (bitterly): That's the respectable person who, in the year 1950 after Christ, drums lies into you that we must start a war to gain world leadership...
...score was 17 to 15 going into the final varsity bout, but there was little doubt concerning Heidtmann's superiority. He recorded three takedowns and an escape to gain an easy decision...
University employees made their second major gain in two weeks yesterday as negotiations ended on a five percent wage increase for hourly-paid workers. At the beginning of the month, all salaried personnel went on a five-day week...