Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...return to the primitive essentials of Christianity by his re-definition of true faith as deep belief which not only is unjustified by the available evidence, but is irrelevant to all possible evidence or even runs headlong against it--belief which, is, in short, "absurd." The claim to have gotten "beyond" rational thought is a form of what Russell regards as the arch-vice, intellectual dishonesty. He would probably say that it is patently impossible to argue with someone who insists on Tertullian's Credo quia absurdum est. Such a case needs a psychiatrist, not syllogisms...
...Gone and gotten myself gravid," announces Isabel one day. For Owen the joy turns to horror as his wife becomes obsessed with the notion that her pregnancy has been forced upon her by the black magic of the land's fierce sensuality. She flees to a sorcerer and dies in abortion. For a year, Owen's "chaste maple syrup soul" is frozen. Then he attends a frenzied voodoo initiation, slips into an illicit affair, takes to drink, and the tropics claim another victim...
...strong wind sent a gust of oil flying from the inboard port engine. It spattered across the welcoming committee of U.S. Admiral Felix Stump, in natty whites, Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, in a white sharkskin suit, a dozen newsmen. Said a bystander: "They suddenly looked like they'd gotten measles...
...range stands Piper, now run largely by the three sons of President Bill Piper. A successful oilman who made his stake in the early Pennsylvania fields, Bill Piper Sr. started business in 1929 and, like his colleagues, often wished, as he almost went broke, that "I'd never gotten into this aviation business." Yet today, with three modern versions of its Cub plus its $34,990 twin-engined Apache, Piper is solidly in the black and ready to expand...
Every Day, in Every Way, It Gets Better and Better, does the Princeton hockey team. It's gotten so much better that it trounced B. C., 8 to 2, in its last outing...