Word: gettin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gettin' by. We got 5,000 acres here, some rented, some owned. We got 300 heada Hereford, and some hogs. We raise a little barley. Dad an' me do most of the work, but we got two men who help us part time." One of the ranch hands materializes at his side like a movie extra and sharpens his knife on a pocket stone. It is 100° in the yard. "There's not much money in ranchin' around here," continues McCorry. "One trouble is the rain. In a year we don't get but ten, eleven inches...
...them all as they came out of Buster's, shaking hands, exchanging greetings--Milton Battiste, Kid Sheik, Andy Anderson, Papa Glass. "Say, man," Sheik said, "this is gettin' to be more like a party or something than a funeral...
...used to this shit. You'll prob'ly see two or three more shootin's before this parade's over. But I grew up with this, man. It's just part of my life. There's always been shit like that going on around me. Cats gettin' cut to ribbons with knives, razors, guns, fightin...
...Well, I don't think it's like that at all. Besides, you just got to accept these things. For me, gettin' shot is a chance I got to take every day, the way my neighborhood is. It's a chance you got to take...
...Braniff Airways commercials. First off, there was baseball's Whitey Ford tweaking the twitching mustache of Salvador Dali. Then came another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only write for money") and venerable Poet Marianne Moore. "This is gonna ruin my reputation," quipped Spillane, sipping a glass of milk while Miss Moore sampled the champagne. "Don't worry...