Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here by confess . . ." The lurid confession was that Hume had hacked to pieces a car dealer named Stanley Setty -a murder that in two separate trials the Crown had never been able to prove. Convicted only of dumping Setty's dismembered body from a hired airplane, Hume got off with a mere eight years as an accessory. Upon his release, secure in the knowledge that he could never be retried for the murder, he sold his gaudy story to the Pic for $5,600. When this nest egg began to run low, he replenished it by means...
...third time since early last year, Actress Sarah Churchill, 44, was hauled in by the law for public drunkenness. This time, in London, she got off with a $5.60 fine, after a constable testified that Sir Winston's daughter "appeared to be trying to hold a sort of political meeting" all by herself in a local snack...
...near midnight in the sleeping Bavarian city of Bamberg (pop. 76,800) when some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...
...physics at the high school (683 students), began agitating to remodel their dingy classrooms (built in 1926), which seemed closer to the Bronze Age than to the Nuclear Era. Robert W. Schaerer, a rare kind of school-district business manager, was no man to laugh at them. He got them permission to scour the Midwest for plans that grew a bigger price tag by the hour. "We always went big," says Schaerer, "and this was really big. But the school board didn't duck it." One bond referendum was defeated; but just before the next one in 1957 President...
Sometime I feel like, baby, committin' suicide . . . I got the nerve if I just had anythin' to do it with. I'm gain' down slow, somethin' wrong with me. I've got to make a change while that I'm still young. If I don't I won't ever...