Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy doctor, soon to come home, wrote warning his wife rather sadly that he had gotten bald and heavy. She wrote back gently: "You will find that three years has done quite a bit to me, too." A partially paralyzed ex-defense worker gave his six-year-old daughter a doll, his nine-year-old son a pack of cards, told them to shut their eyes because more was coming, and shot them through their heads...
General Patton is a great commander and an honest man. Every time that he has gotten into trouble with me public it has been because he stood up on his hind legs and told the truth. The truth always hurts...
...damned shame." But Danny still had his troubles. Union drivers refused to deliver whiskey, and at times Danny seemed to be sweating slightly as drinkers cried, glass in hand: "You can't give in, Danny!" It was obvious that he couldn't-his clientele had gotten bigger and tougher than the union...
Betancourt and Gallegos had been exiles in the days of tyrannical dictator Juan Vicente Gómez. They had returned to Venezuela to help prod President Eleázar López Contreras along the path of measured democracy. For a time they had gotten along with his successor, Medina. But they had broken with Medina when he failed 1) to tackle the nation's economic problems squarely, 2) to change the constitution so that the President could be elected by direct suffrage...
...life I've wanted a few things a young girl needs and prays for. So today I read about a $40,000 debut. Then I think that a thousand of American girls like myself could have gotten a watch or a coat, maybe braces for her teeth with a bit of money spent so lavishly and foolishly. . . . While we skimp and save and do without so much that could make us happy. I am a private in the Army . . . draw monthly $36. ... I'll bum cigarets when I am broke, but I'll never admire or respect...