Word: getting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a little band of men around this university engaged in a sinister occupation. We don't know who they are yet, but take it from us, they're out to get...
...some time, the Navy Department has been receiving inquiries about the clause, although they have come mainly from individuals and not organizations, Roper said. As a result, he added, Navy officials have been trying to arrange a study of the question. Until now "it has been impossible to get the right people together," according to the Admiral...
...such a cacophony with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with an electric leaf raker, with the same result. Seven days after that he was copping ice, not steadily and rhythmically so that one could get used to it, bur irregularly. Success in this third plot was so overwhelming that he came back the following week and REPEATED THE PERFORMANCE...
...preliminary talk before giving his first demonstration, Dr. Moreno said he was "like Freud an innovator. . . an inventor of gadgets--social gadgets...Psychoanalyst's couch, which is a mess, as you know. The patient couldn't get out and fight! Couldn't make love to anybody! He was tied down. The whole orientation of psychoanalysis has developed out of the patient's recumbent position." Dr. Moreno punctuated his remarks with colorful gestures, and his gusto of delivery could qualify him for another role--that of basso buffo...
...acting out the situation, Dr. Moreno's assistant, a Miss Tocman, served as the girl. Her "stage" experience proved too much for Tom. She twisted his attempts at casual pre-class time talk into insults. Tom still didn't get the date...