Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...themselves, but over all, the man named most often was Nat (the Phil Silvers Show) Hiken. Said Hiken last week: "Sure, I think I'm the best, and every other professional comedy writer who's any good thinks he's the best. He's gotta. It's that kinda business " Hiken added, after a moments reflection: "But don't let them...
...hand. The lady reporter protested. Wagging his tail cordially, Dixie Pixy Presley drawled: "I was only trying to be friendly, like a little puppy dog." This explanation was rejected, so Elvis got down to the crass method in his madness: "Lady, if you want to get ahead, you gotta be different...
...sort of irks the moderns; it sort of throws them. They've found ways to disguise the sound of other instruments, especially the trumpet. They make it sound soft and low−not like a real trumpet. But any good clarinetist makes it sound like a clarinet. They gotta...
...they occasionally scrounge off him. They step into the batter's box with complete confidence that he will put the ball near the plate ("The inclination is just to say 'Strike! Strike! Strike!" says Umpire Jocko Conlon. "He's so close you gotta watch him like an eagle.") If the hitters happen to be hot, they can dig in and hammer him unmercifully. This refusal to throw anywhere but over the plate has earned him at least one unenviable record: last year he allowed 41 home runs, a major-league mark...
...bluejacket staggered through the thick odor and the rude sounds of the old port of Naples. A ragged urchin tugged and chanted at him: "You wanna girl, mister? I gotta my sister for you. Come on, Joe! Cheap!" the sailor pulled away, then slumped drunkenly to the sidewalk. Mouse-quick, the eight-year-old tried to grab the sailor's wallet, but the sailor weakly pushed him away. Unable to roll the man, the urchin sped away to sell him: in Naples bigger urchins pay 500 lire, perhaps 1,000 lire, for news of a likely victim to beat...