Word: gotten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ideas that Harry Truman campaigned on. They also shared among them a hatful of political savvy. Many of them had been stronger than the ticket, had got to Congress on their own merits. Ideologically, they were not coattail riders of Harry Truman either; they were men who had gotten their political doctrine from the same source: the collection of ideas known as the New Deal...
...officials to let down their hair before the press -without getting into trouble in the process. By giving a frank-and unquotable-explanation of the background behind official actions, bigwigs had often helped reporters do a better job of interpreting the news. But the handy phrase has long since gotten out of hand. Last week Managing Editor Norman E. Isaacs of the St. Louis Star-Times charged that editors who persisted in kowtowing to "off the record" were "frequently guilty of suppressing news...
...first of the 2,778 illustrations in these volumes shows King Or-Nina with his family, neatly gotten up in the latest Sumerian style of 3,000 B.C., i.e., bare feet and chest, a rather hefty skirt made out of hanks of wool, and a basket fitted snugly on his head. One of the last illustrations shows President Lincoln receiving at the White House...
Brahms: Quartet No. 3, Op. 60 (Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Frank Miller, cello; Mercury, 7 sides). Mercury could hardly have gotten together a finer ensemble (Schneider is a Budapest Quartet alumnus; Katims and Miller are both first chair men in Toscanini's NBC Symphony) to bring this grimly powerful Brahms quartet back on the record shelves. Performance and recording : excellent...
...half dozen students came in tuxedoes one morning at 1 a.m. and said they were invited to a 'private' opening; I didn't let them in," Shean revealed as he ended his final stint last night. "The only outsider that's gotten past me during construction was a small gray kitten, but I've had some pretty close calls...