Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fairley, who is a high jumper in the spring, couldn't have gotten much higher off the floor. Of Dartmouth's 51 rebounds, he alone accounted for 21. "We'd been waiting for him to show," said a teammate after the game...
...attempted in American history . . . This is the Republican Administration I am talking about-not irresponsible members of Congress . . . They announced from the White House, with much fanfare, that they were doing a wonderful job-simply magnificent-of cleaning the Communists out of the Government, and that . . . already they had gotten rid of 1,456 'security risks.' The number had grown to 2,200 by the time of the State of the Union message ... It seems to me that the presidential press conference and the State of the Union message ought not to be used for such deceptive practices...
...advance copy of the exam and to get one of the culprits to deliver it himself. The trap worked: when the culprit arrived, both Instructor Geis and the campus chief of police were on hand to greet him. The culprit and his three cohorts quickly confessed. They had gotten the examination questions from a used Mimeograph stencil that had been tossed into a campus trash can. "But some day," remarked one of them as he was led away, "I'm going to have to take the course." Instructor Geis's course: elementary criminology...
...have gotten the impression that the cause of most unhappiness is a low sexual charge and that to become sexually active and skillful is a sure cure for al most anything. It is not going too far to say that a large portion of the U.S. population regards sex. today with the same simple faith that their great-grandparents reserved for snake...
Philco Radio Playhouse (Wed. 9 p.m., ABC). Hear My Heart Speak, with Joseph Gotten, Kim Stanley...