Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jimmy Rousmaniere accounted for the second tally early in the last period, taking a corner kick from Captain Howie Mendel. Kelly scored the Tufts goal half way through the fourth quarter when Jack Penson got caught outside of his goal...
...Tulsa, Okla., Rosanner Speights, 66, married Ulysses Grant Sisney, 90. It was her seventh marriage, his fourth. Said the bride: "A preacher once asked me why I got married so much. I told him the Good Lord kept taking...
...Bessie got his first shock on joining the Lincoln Battalion after its retreat from Teruel. Of 500 men who had started the battle there were about 100 filthy, unarmed survivors, silent or snarling, lying dead-beat on a hillside. In a week, with new replacements and an issue of old Russian Imperial Army rifles, they had to slog back into the line, still dopey with fatigue. "You fired till the rifle got too hot to handle; then you opened the bolt and blew down the barrel and let it cool, resting your face on your extended arm, waiting. You got...
...retreating again at night, Bessie found himself running in the dark through a camp of Franco's troops. He was one of four, out of a detachment of 70, that got across the Ebro into relative safety. After that the men knew that the People's Army was being overpowered by German and Italian force, that they were the tail-end of the International volunteers. Scared Spanish boys came in as replacements, together with deserters and "goldbricks" once thought unfit for fighting. One soldier wept. "They killed all the good guys," he said. "I seen guys...
...Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl who runs away with him because "dad's got so he's queer with...