Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was this load of general supplies he'd gotten on the swindle sheet. And a pile of score cards from Braves Field and Fenway Park. And the slick program from the Longwood Cricket Club. There was the radio with a crack through its plastic side suffered the night he'd been a little athletic with an empty beer bottle. That would have to go. All this and only one small suitcase. There was a pile of magazines and newspapers Vag had hoped to take with him, the clippings from the Sporting News and the columns from the Stock Market...
...department assures me that there is still reason to hope. Methodist Pastor Safran has the courage to speak out against the . . . racial bigotry which we in the North practice. The Church of England actually has more applicants for religious training than it has vacancies. A fighting Protestant Irishman has gotten hard-bitten policemen to act like "gentlemen." Japanese Christians predict a tenfold increase in their ranks. And TIME says that "the greatest writing in human history has been religious writing. . . ." A wonderful department, indeed...
...stuck. Among a host of other duties, he has to edit every piece of copy that goes into TIME each week (he has, he says, a basilisk's eye complicated by journalist's cataract). So it was good news to me that T. S. Matthews had gotten away for a week's trip by chartered plane to the Pacific Coast and back...
...nightmare. But at Leyburn Police Headquarters none liked to look too closely at the body of the huge, tawny Alsatian sheepdog that had wrought the havoc; for in that section of Yorkshire sheep are a livelihood, and no Dalesman cares to admit that his dog has gotten the taste for sheep's blood...
...Sour Apples. Ingersoll admits that his adless Great Experiment (a first-issue sellout) grew tiresome: "Someone on Broadway cracked, 'PM's a paper gotten out by young fogies.' Everybody giggled . . . the public didn't like it for sour apples." By August, 1940, the "faithful" had slumped to a paltry 31,000 in a city of 7½ million. Since then, PM has had its ups & downs, has enjoyed occasional dizzying forays into the black...