Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Board Member Roger Dearborn Lapham, of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., was the color of parchment; Chair man Clarence Dykstra had just gotten over a ten-day siege of sickness. The disease they were all suffering from was simply fatigue and overwork...
Under such headlines as "At Last We Have Gotten In First," vastly relieved Londoners read last weekend that the political fire in Iraq, which had threatened the Mosul oil fields and Britain's prestige in the Moslem world, had been smothered, if not extinguished...
...Schell was an honored guest of the U.S. Army. He saw its small, experimental mechanized units at work, took back many a valuable lesson for Hitler's Panzer divisions. Last month Chief of Staff George C. Marshall told a Congressional subcommittee: "In the last two weeks we have gotten more exact data than we have previously had as to the employment of German armored and motorized forces. . . ." When this information had been digested, said the General, the U.S. Army might have to make some changes in its new, belatedly organized Armored Force...
...been produced in practically every theatre in the country, it's played to audiences from London to San Francisco, the music has almost attained the category of folk tunes--it's so old that even Hollywood has gotten around to it. But "Rose Marie" has survived all, including the Jeanette McDonald-Nelson Eddy version which has been the dubious fate of so many good musical plays and operettas...
...number? I have insulted my local broad and gotten very little information...