Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What in the world has gotten into the students of Harvard? I note in the Christian Science Monitor of April 9 that (a) the Law School Forum has cancelled the participation in a debate of Howard Fast, the Communist novelist, and (b) some other unnamed organization has cancelled a film starring Paul Robeson, the Communist actor. What are the students so frightened about? Is their faith in themselves and in democracy so feeble that they fear subversion from the dreary imbecilities of Howard Fast or from the cavortings of Paul Robeson as the Emperor Jones...
...June 1951, before the Korean truce talks began, "we had the Communist armies on the run . . . We stopped by order, did not pursue to finish the enemy ... I believe we would have gotten all his heavy equipment and perhaps 200,000 or 300,000 prisoners ... I was crying [for Washington] to turn me loose...
...Deputy Minister of War Marshal Zhukov, Russia's greatest military hero of World War II. Finally. Malenkov took pains to hand out plums to national minorities, e.g., a comrade from Azerbaijan was made an alternate member of the Party Presidium, the first time that a Moslem has gotten a top political job in Russia...
...that's not all. The House basketball all-star game was last week, the University squash tournament has finally gotten around to the finals, and the hockey players are all relaxing in Cronin's. So winter must be over...
...about 5 p.m. it appeared that word of the change had gotten around, for the number of tickets the policemen gave dropped considerably from the ten per hour record they achieved during the morning hours...