Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, often represented by attorneys following the communist line, I suggest that practically all of the people who pleaded the Fifth Amendment were willing to tell everything they knew about the communist membership except that they had an understandable reluctance to tell on those people who had gotten out of the movement and were leading unmolested, decent, pro-democracy lives. We have taught our children not to be tattle-tales, but now we are putting on a public parade of witness to testify against their-upbringing. This parade may keep up for sixty years. 700,000 Americans, usually between...
...country is choking on generalized ignorance," he said, over the ship's loudspeakers. "We must create an elite . . . capable of forming opinion on high levels of morality . . . with 90% of the young men who seek jobs almost illiterate, not knowing even how to write a letter, after having gotten out of those peddlers' houses called high schools, who will not receive the plan . . . as a blessing...
...famous scholars and scientists jump through the hoop of Mr. Dorgan who apparently has never for-gotten his school failures (how many times has he tried the bar examinations?) and swear that they will teach to the best of their ability? Is this not an insult: and if such a pledge is exacted at all should it not come from the profession, as in the case of physicians, and not from a body of politicians? Is it not a tragic farce that the most conscientious profession should get on its knees and swear to the least conscientious (outside of downright...
...minority of approvals, led by Milan's influential Corriere della Sera: "A vibrant success . . . Menotti is an artist of tradition, a most Italian artist." Said Menotti: "Well, the reviews weren't all good, but the good ones were real raves-the first I've gotten in Italy. I must admit it feels wonderful...
...Unfortunately, and I hope coincidentally, two of the three drives I have worked on at Harvard have gotten involved in student politics. Although the additional publicity can be rationalized into an asset, the loss to the prestige of the charities is great...