Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...freed from outside coercion. On this point the motor executives won out, but labor, on the other hand, managed to get the process of collective bargaining more clearly defined. Labor has adopted the wise course in deciding to consolidate its position, taking advantage of the gains it has already gotten under the NRA instead of bringing on a strike which would have meant suffering to millions and a setback to the industrial progress of the country...
...suddenly it has gotten dark...
Sample question: Has anybody ever gotten away with anything here-that is pinched a brick...
...President Roosevelt was striking not only at Democratic Committeemen who had gotten in on the ground floor of the new administration but also at a long roster of political has-beens, mostly Republicans who still thought they had enough influence to do private chores before old friends in the Government departments. Among these lawyer-lobbyists who could not tear themselves away from the fat pickings in Washington were...