Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that President James Monroe had extended to the Americas, President Harry Truman had extended from the Tana to the Rhine, and perhaps to Trieste. And how did the U.S. people feel about it? The State Department, which gets bushels of letters when Palestine, China or Spain is involved, had gotten only a trickle in the 14 weeks the North Atlantic pact was being negotiated. Did this indicate apathy or agreement? As far as anxious State Department men could discern, the U.S. public had accepted, long since, the important principles involved...
...events demonstrated that he had another think coming; a good many Congressmen, who represented historic regional interests and prejudices, and a common fear of the extremes in Harry Truman's campaign promises, disagreed. They thought that they also had a "mandate" from the voters (some of them had gotten more votes than Harry Truman in their areas). "The accomplishments of this Congress," said Ohio's Robert Taft, "will not be zero, though they will look like zero to President Truman...
...whole, the President said, most of the members of Congress are fundamentally all right. Sometimes they get a little excited. But he pointed out that Congress had been delayed almost a month by the Inauguration, that it had just gotten started...
...Truman, who already had tapped McMath as the kind of progressive leader the South needs. The legislature adjourned after blocking McMath's anti-lynch, anti-poll tax program. To rebel cries that McMath was trying to produce a "mongrel" race, the governor replied wearily: "I thought we had gotten above that sort of thing...
...point I was sold on the whole deal. I had talked over the phone to the person who was on top of the list the day I joined. He was supposed to receive all the money that new members contributed that evening, and he told me he had already gotten over $300 and expected more tomorrow...