Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brooklyn house. He arrived just as a woman ran out. Her half-crazed husband, with a pistol, had broken through a bedroom window, bent on killing her. The house was pitch-dark. O'Dwyer got a kerosene lamp, pushed it into the room, saw that his quarry had gotten into bed. He dived, yanked back the blankets, grabbed the man's gun hand. It was like "holding the leg of a steer." The man wrestled desperately to bring his weapon to bear. O'Dwyer warned him, then pulled his own pistol, fired once, into...
Even Mr. Mack admits that his team has had some breaks: "The pitching against us has not been so good. We have gotten more bases on balls than we had a right to expect." He was finding winning so much fun that he had spurned an offer of $100,000 for Pitcher Marchildon. And people might find it hard to believe, but Mr. Mack was actually trying to buy an outfielder for $50,000 cash...
Said an Eversharp bigwig: "Dealers are killing us, screaming and tearing us apart for more ball-point pens." That was just eleven months ago. Last week it looked as if Eversharp had gotten another kind of tearing-apart. Board Chairman Martin L. Straus reported that his company (which had had to borrow $3,000,000 to carry it through) had closed its fiscal year with a $3,416,985.23 deficit. The trouble: ball pens...
...comparative scores are your idea of a good time, the Crimson holds a statistical edge over the visitors. They have lost to three EIL teams that also have beaten the Crimson this year, but the Ithacans have gotten their lumps much more spectacularly. Dartmouth, Army, and Navy have whipped Cornell 14-5, 12-0, and 12-2 respectively, while the home forces have extended the same opposition to the extent...
...This is one of those mornings," rumbled Big Jim Duff cheerfully, "when it's a pleasure to get out of bed." Pennsylvania's strapping governor was as relaxed as a man who hadn't yet gotten up. In the Capitol at Harrisburg, his long legs were draped over the edge of his massive circular desk. He had just clobbered the G.O.P.'s Old Guard in last week's primaries...