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Word: gotta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to the Times the investigators replied to all inquiries that "The city is being sued by upstate farmers for rainmaking. We gotta find out, did we make rain or didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York City Probes Howell's Real Potency | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...Well, you know... some things you gotta watch...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: Cabbages and Kings | 11/27/1951 | See Source »

...that old big R in rotation to get me outa here." The BAR (Browning automatic rifle) man scuffed a stone and said: "So what're we supposed to do? When we can stop fighting, the man will tell us, and until then we'll fight when we gotta, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEN AT WAR: Counting on Nothing | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...performance looked a lot more impressive after it turned out that he had fought the last eleven rounds under a double handicap: a broken right hand and a broken jaw. In his dressing room, Bratton, soaking his swollen right hand in a bucket of ice water, complained glumly: "You gotta hit 'em to make 'em respect you . . . and it hurt too much to hit him." Jubilant Kid Gavilan, first Cuban ever to win a world title,* happily verified Bratton's complaint: "He no never hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pride of Cuba | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

WELLESLEY, Mass., April 30 (ARF)--So listen. I'm up here at this little old Waban oval, taking a day leave from the Downs, and I gotta report that they look good, these fillies, and ready...

Author: By Clocker Spanielle, | Title: Clocker, Friend Work on Hoop Race | 5/1/1951 | See Source »

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