Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East last month to take a scholarship at New York's Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Iva Begay, a Navaho girl, had gotten the Jim Crow treatment in a bus near Amarillo, Tex. Shocked and scared, she went back to the reservation (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, as she was playing the piano for a service in a little Protestant church in Flagstaff, Ariz., an invitation arrived. How would she like to fly to the big Tri-State Fair at Amarillo, with all expenses paid? Amarillo wanted to "open its collective arms and heart" to Florence, so that she would...
...while the New Jersey Republican had picked up a liberal education in strategy and tactics from 1938 to 1947, his own ideas on what was "subversive" were pretty well fixed from the beginning. Just a couple of months after the new committee had gotten underway, Thomas bitterly assaulted the Federal Theater and Writers Projects. He claimed that they were "infested with radicals from top to bottom," as doubtless they were. What was more, Thomas said, the projects were links "in the vast and unparalleled New Deal propaganda machine...
Although the jayvees threw no passes, the Cadets are expected to rely more on an aerial game tomorrow than they have in the past, since word has gotten around that pass defense is not the Crimson's forte. The same weakness has appeared in all of Army's encounters to date, and Harvard may be expected to retaliate in kind...
...that's not the attitude at Baker Field. Somehow, the word has gotten around that "Harvard is loaded," and Columbia coach Lou Little will assure you that he spends sleepless nights worrying about such Crimson stars as Gannon, Moffie, Kenary, Drvaric, Houston, Rodis, Florentino, DiBlasio and Guthrle, who he feels could make Harvard tougher than Yale or Rutgers...
...that's not the attitude down here. Somehow, he word has gotten around that "Harvard is loaded," and Columbia coach Lou Little will assure you that he spends sleepless nights worrying about such Crimson stars as Gannon, Moffle, Kenary, Drvaric, Houston, Rodis, Fioritino, DiBlasio, and Guthrie, who he feels could make Harvard tougher then Yale and the equal of Rutgers...