Word: gotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gotta Win." The Giants soon lost a tough game, io. As Durocher, a lover of the historical present tense, recalls the clubhouse scene: "Stanky comes into the clubhouse after the game and starts throwing things, taking it out on the furniture about those lucky bastards winning that one. He finally takes a kick at the water cooler and the bottle falls and breaks and the ice goes all over the floor and there's a hell of a ruckus. Now Al Dark has a good day that day. As I remember it, we get six hits...
...pennant in one of the most dramatic finishes baseball has ever produced. Bobby Thomson's home run clinched the pennant, but 156 games had already been played, and Stanky had worked mightily in 145 of them. Durocher tells of Stanky's role: "To win a pennant you gotta win the tight ball games. And to win those tight ones, those one-run games, you gotta have guys who won't quit till they've won. And you've always gotta have one guy to lead those other guys. Eddie Stanky was my guy and their...
...White House in a flowered calico, The furniture can stay, boy, but the piano's gotta go. If I don't make much salary, I'm not afraid of that 'Cause if I get elected, well, there's other ways to skin...
...Gotta. America's 42 million income-taxpaying fish of 1952 are, however, far from the starvation point. They never, they keep telling one another, had it so good. Around March 15, they suspect that they are living in a mirage. This suspicion is confirmed by many economists. A livelier witness is Miss Doreen Gray, no economist but a striptease artist who was performing last week at the Colony Club of Gardena, Calif...
...voice is not as sweet as Bing's; he is nowhere near as funny as Martin & Lewis. And he is not the best of Hollywood's actors. In fact, it is an open question whether he can act at all. "How often do I gotta tell you (thus Wayne to a persistent interviewer) that I don't act at all-I re-act." By this, Wayne means that on the set he responds to a cue precisely as he would in his own backyard, regardless of what the script and the director may say. John Wayne...