Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heat's On. Once before this year, the President had gotten another oldtime New Dealer-Federal Trade Commissioner John Carson-past a balky committee, by turning on some purely political heat. He decided to try again with Olds, sent for National Democratic Chairman Bill Boyle. On Harry Truman's orders, Boyle dispatched telegrams to every Democratic national and state committeeman, governor and mayor in the U.S.. told them Olds's defeat would be "a victory for the power lobbyists and the Republican Party," and instructed them to whip their Senators into line...
...British had only gotten around to creating a national company after Diaghilev's death (1929), though ballet had been a London rage since the 18th Century. Under the stern direction of a tiny Irish-born former Diaghilev dancer named Ninette de Valois, they had modeled their company after the classical Russian patterns. But in 20 years, it had become as British as meat...
...Sureseaters had opened in San Diego and Salt Lake City. Others were planned in Denver, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma. Los Angeles, which had gotten five new sureseaters in twelve months, would soon get one more which has hitherto specialized in westerns...
...last 25 years, Harvard Mountaineering Club members have gotten into the same sort of jams and gone back for more. The club celebrated its silver anniversary this summer by sending four expeditions to four countries, climbing mountains like Teepe's Pillar and Devil's Paw and mapping miles of snow-covered peaks never before seen by human eyes...
With her eyes closed ecstatically, she gave them Hymne à l'Amour; then her gallant song of the Foreign Legion, Le Fanion de la Légion. By the time she had gotten through her prayerful Bonjour Monsieur Saint-Pierre and the piquant one that Piaf partisans will walk miles to hear -her own composition, La Vie en Rose, this time with a chorus in English-the fans were pounding their hands...