Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sing the Gettin' In The Swing Of It Blues...
...still "makes a batch" of three or four pictures almost every week. She paints each day until she begins to tire: "Then I leave it to do something else; when my hand gets tired, it isn't so stiddy." Sometimes Grandma turns to television, "though it's gettin' to be monotonous," or more likely just chats with Winona. Grandma's hearing is perfect, and she says, "I love the gossip." Now & then she entertains her neighboring great-grandchildren who "come troopin' acrost the field, lookin' like Coxey's Army...
...ceremony started, Yasmin plucked at her mother's elbow, whispered: "What are you doin', Mommy, gettin' married?" Even the text for the marriage service suited the occasion. It said: "Will you love, honor and cherish [each other] throughout your married life" instead of "so long as you both shall live...
...them and cutting $5,000,000,000 from the Air Force?' I said. If they cut that thing down to a hundred they save a billion a year. Maybe that ain't the figure . . . I'm no Walter Reuther. I ain't got 15 guys gettin' the facts...
Equally so is your reference to the songs selected as representative by the American delegation. "So Long," as I specified, was not the popular song, but the Dust Bowl song, ending with "This dusty old dust is a-gettin' my home, I've got to be moving along." The other songs were "I'm Gonna Put My Name Down" (for the Stockholm appeal), We Shall Not Be Moved, Joe Hill (labor songs), Goodnight Irene (which was hummed), and the Negro National Anthem...