Word: got
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...got the minor details wrong. Our species, Homo sapiens, is never spelled with a lower-case h. Irven DeVore's name is not spelled "DeVore." The overflow crowd in Science Center C was watching on a live video system, not "watching on video tape." And the ovation DeVore received was not a "standing" one, to the best of my recollection and that of a friend, both of us seated in the very last row of Science Center...
...got the major details wrong. First, DeVore has indeed "observed" baboons, but he, like Emmerich, has only heard about insects and elephant seals secondhand. Second, Emmerich criticized DeVore for having theorized about humans without being among "those scientists who actually studied human beings and societies." In fact, DeVore is an anthropologist, and his two career-long research interests have been observing baboons and observing the culture of the Kung bushmen. DeVore did refer to these cross-cultural observations of his in his talk...
...got some good news and some bad news...
...Richard M. Nixon was not driven from office by the press--the press was also on trial during Watergate," Brokaw said. "We held back often, and got all our facts in order," he added...
...were rowing rough," cox Meg Ziegler said. "The boat wasn't as smooth and together as it could have been. There's a lot of work to be done but we've got a month (before the Eastern Sprints...