Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced his intention to make 400 m.p.h. on land, is now building a new jet-driven car (also to be named Bluebird) to try for the land mark next year at Utah's Bonneville salt flats. Said he: "I have decided to retire after I have got the double...
First Report. Brand-new Deacon Tagoona got acquainted with theology on his own with the help of books in English and the careful study of Biblical texts. "He knows more than most graduates of theological schools," says the bishop. "In another year he may become a priest...
...state law from compulsory collective bargaining, and the struck six stuck to their legal guns. The Greater New York Hospital Association rejected Mayor Robert F. Wagner's suggestion that both sides submit their case to an impartial fact-finding commission. On strike's eve, the six hospitals got court orders to head it off, but the orders were ineffective because Local President Leon J. Davis, once an apostle of left-wing causes, went into hiding to avoid service...
...guided-missile cruiser Galveston. All at once he felt a slight burning sensation in his backside. Dr. Johnson happened to have a couple of neon lamps (the size of flashbulbs) in his hip pocket. With no wires or other connections, the lamps had glowed and heated up when he got in the way of radar waves...
Married. Elizabeth Taylor, 27, cinemactress; and Eddie Fisher, 30, crooner (3½ hours after he got a Nevada divorce from Cinemactress Debbie Reynolds); she for the fourth time, he for the second; in Las Vegas...