Word: got
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hospitality and gifts, including a vicuña coat, from finagling Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine. But in much more important areas, he returned from Milestone Plantation ready, as he had not been since his heart attack, to follow the creed of Theodore Roosevelt: "Here is the task. I have got...
...Next morning Ike and Adenauer entered into their "formal" talks; actually, they were warmly informal. The U.S. President and the West German Chancellor kept interrupting one another like old friends. Ike was hugely amused when he put on the earphones over which simultaneous translations were to be made, and got only static; West German Ambassador to U.S. Wilhelm Grewe had dripped fruit juice onto the wiring, causing a short circuit. Eisenhower more than satisfied Adenauer that he was not about to bargain away West Germany's rights in his talks with Khrushchev, that he meant rather to convince Khrushchev...
...fragrance was on the heather. Fat Black Angus cattle grazed on the rolling hills. Trout-filled streams gurgled cheerfully. U.S. reporters rolling out into the Highlands with the President and Prince Philip, who had met him, were surprised that so few Scotsmen wore kilts. But when they got to the gates of royal Balmoral, the Americans got the full treatment-bagpipes howling fiendishly, Royal Highland Fusiliers crashing to attention...
...plus-eight, the battle still hammering in the outskirts, the British doctors got their last breath of hope when they looked out of an attic window across the eight flat miles that separated them from the main body of Montgomery's bogged-down army. They saw "an almost continuous line of flashes that illuminated the horizon like footlights." Said one surgeon: "Monty always begins his attacks this way. They should reach here tomorrow." Another replied: "About bloody time, too." Next day all was still. The barrage was a final concentration to cover the last retreat of ist Airborne...
...Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rerun of The Jockey, the adventures of a jock from the right side of the track trying to discover whether some guys from the wrong side got...