Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...held forth on the difficulties of baseball as compared with golf. Baseball, with a round bat and a fast-moving target, Williams explained, calls for much more skill than the quiet game of golf. "Maybe so," said Sam doubtfully. "But when we hit a foul ball, we've gotta get out there and play it." Another time, when Snead heard that Bing Crosby had just won the Academy Award, he said, "Gee, that's swell. How'd he do it-match or medal play?" After his first big splash in California, Snead saw his picture, a Wirephoto...
...styled dean of the country's 4,000 disk jockeys, looked back on his 22 years at the turntables, summed up: "Frankly, I feel like a complete heel playing this terrible music all day. But, I tell you this, anybody who's got a good rating has gotta play lousy music. For five years in the beginning I tried to play good stuff- Louis, the Duke, Bix. I starved. Then one day I played a Lombardo record; a week later I had a sponsor. Let's face it, this is a bastardized...
...Look, son, I know you gotta get back to Harvard, but we have lock you up until somebody gets down here to bail you out. It'll be fifty dollars...
...from satisfied, the mob headed to the Square, the vision of Pogo driving them on. "These things just don't happen, ya gotta make them happen," some body said. One enterprising student climbed on top of the Subway Station and led the incensed crowd in "Tiger Meat." Three more men quickly followed his example and were quickly surrounded by a horde of University Policemen. On Massachusetts Avenue traffic stood still. One by one the self-appointed cheerleaders dropped into the waiting arms of the policemen, and surrendered their Bursar's Cards. These were the Martyrs and the crowd shouted...
Being practical types, they decide not to bury him under the sidewalk ("Aw-ya gotta kill him first"), but to finesse his extinction. One of the boys gets his father's rifle, lets Joey pull the trigger. Older brother Lennie falls down groaning, with a sinister smear of ketchup spreading on his chest. The others shout, "He's dead! You killed your brother, Joey!" Terrified. Joey runs home. No mother. Desperate, he grabs the $6 she left for them, and, hugging his trusty six-shooter, takes it on a lonesome lam that leads...