Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Richard (Have Gun) Boone. On London's commercial Channel 9 last week, there were more than nine hours of U.S. shows. And the BBC supplied another eight. Caught up in the cultural invasion, armchair wayfarers could head out with Wagon Train or Highway Patrol. With tea they got Annie Oakley, Mickey Mouse, Popeye; with cocktails it was Lucille Ball in Lucy or Ann (Private Secretary) Sothern; with the bedtime mild-and-bitter came OSS, or Lee Marvin's M Squad. On commercial channels in the south, Midlands, and north, screens flashed with Wild Bill Hickok, Lassie. Joe Friday...
...before she went onstage as Lady Macbeth at Boston's brand-new, nylon-roofed arena theater last week, Irish Actress Siobhan McKenna sent a note to her costar, Jason Robards Jr. "Dear Macbeth," she wrote. "It's funny that after all these years I haven't got to know your first name. I want you to know that yours is the most moving and truly poetic Macbeth I have ever known." When the play was finished, apart from critics who claimed to miss polish and high oratorical style, the cheering audience was willing to go Siobhan...
Coffins & Carpets. He traveled to Russia in 1903 and got the attention that nourished him by breaking out of a steel-barred carette, one of the portable, horse-drawn cells used for transporting political prisoners to Siberia. He had been stripped to his drawers and examined by doctors before being locked up. but he produced a small, coiled-spring saw and a can opener to cut through the zinc floor of his cage; they were passed to him, mouth to mouth, when his wife kissed him in tearful "farewell" before the carette was hidden in the corner of the prison...
Russian TV viewers got a garbled version of the same dialogue. Many of Nixon's remarks were not translated at all; in Pravda the vice presidential contribution was cut to five sentences. Pravda edited Khrushchev too, but judiciously, e.g., his patently false boast that Russian workers could afford the U.S. exhibition's $14,000 demonstration home. Said the London Daily Telegraph: "There can be no doubt that the Russian version aimed at presenting [Nixon] as a feeble and defensive debater in the face of a righteous and rumbustious Mr. Khrushchev...
Brain Researcher Ian Oswald of Oxford University's Institute of Experimental Psychology got interested in it while running sleep experiments. His volunteers were plastered with electrodes for electrocardiograph, breathing and brain-wave records. So he got instantaneous evidence of a burst of high-voltage activity in the brain, and disturbances in the heartbeat and breathing. Dr. Oswald reports in Brain that his first jerk-recording subject was a healthy, athletic type of 22, with no history of head injury or brain damage. But he had several such jerks nearly every night while falling asleep in a normal setting...