Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides, said Acheson, after he had gotten Harry Truman's backing for the project, the mill could not possibly be delivered before another year; by that time the U.S. would have a better idea just how lasting was Tito's falling out with the Kremlin. On that basis, Johnson reluctantly agreed...
...client of Five-Percenter James V. Hunt, who had boasted of his friendship with Vaughan. Back in 1945, Witness Gross was making deep freezers. He was asked if he had ever shipped any to Washington. He had. Wisconsin's G.O.P. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy asked him who had gotten them...
They had also come to bury, but not to praise, outgoing Chairman Hugh Scott, who had quit before he could be thrown out (TIME, Aug. 1). Scott, a faithful workman in 86-year-old Joe Grundy's Pennsylvania political machine, had gotten the job as part of the Pennsylvania Deal which gave the nomination to Dewey at Philadelphia. Now he made one final plea for party unity. "For 17 years, we've been taking in each other's washing without enough outside business to break even . . ." It was now a choice, said Scott, between Republican revival...
...using the Meter-Matic plug the slogan: "No money down, as little as 25? a day!" Merchants who have attached meters to stoves, washers and television sets have run into a snag: customers tend to feed the meter only when the appliance is in use. But shrewd retailers have gotten around that by attaching the meter to the refrigerator, no matter which appliance is bought. Refrigerators are different: they have to keep going...
...solid work of such self-improving actors as Gregory Peck and Mel (Lost Boundaries) Ferrer, who have carried the load of running the Playhouse ever since David O. Selznick put up $15,000 to help get it started in 1947. Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire and Joseph Gotten, as directors of the Playhouse, have also pitched...