Slowly and surely I started learning and eventually it got into my blood, and I just got devoted to it."

VOA: special.2009.08.19

One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing boiling water down on enemies attacking a castle.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

And it got powder burned the night Francis Scott Key sat watching it, Writing 'Say Can You See.'

VOA: special.2010.07.02

And it got a bad rip in New Orleans, with Packingham and Jackson Tugging at its seams.

VOA: special.2010.07.02

How it got there is the subject of the book "Taking Woodstock" by Elliot Tiber.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

When it got to the White House, President Tyler vetoed it.

VOA: special.2009.02.05

The study found that the main shoot grows the best of all not because of its position at the top of the plant, but mostly because it got there first.

VOA: special.2009.10.13

How it got this meaning is hard to discover.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

It got into machines and stopped them.

VOA: special.2009.05.10

It got bigger and more painful.

VOA: special.2010.06.17

But it got an even more thrilling start on the dusty trails of the Old West.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

And when it got around to the train station, it made a controversial call.

VOA: standard.2010.03.04

"No," you say,"it just can't be true! Who told you?" Comes the answer, "I got it by the grapevine."

VOA: special.2009.02.22

I just got good at it, because I knew I had to hurry because I was supposed to die."

VOA: special.2009.09.16