Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sister Marian Peter and I have been married. We could have gotten permission from Rome, but decided not to. We want the church to know that it is time that her hierarchy begin preaching and living the Gospel of Christ's love for all mankind, and forget their frantic defense of a legalistic system that has only served to alienate the clergy from the poor...
Most adults carry telltale antibody showing that they have been infected with RSV at some time. The virus probably caused what seemed to be only a bad cold, and since the mild infection left no permanent damage, it was for gotten. But to infants under six months old, RSV is a far more serious threat...
Amusedly saddened by his own middle-aged moral spread, Mailer moves with almost prissy distaste among the rabble. His sharpest barb is reserved for Poet-Polemicist Paul Goodman, who "looked like the sort of old con who had first gotten into trouble in the Y.M.C.A., and hadn't spoken to anyone since." Arrested himself during the opening hours of the Pentagon siege, Mailer winds up in the same paddy wagon with a tall, ferocious American Nazi, and stares him down in the inevitable Mailerian confrontation of wills. "You Jew bastard," shouts the Nazi. "Kraut pig!" replies Norman, only...
...third supporter of the bill told the committee that his daughter, a high-school senior, had just gotten back her college boards. "She did very well," he said, "about 550 or 600, but I'm thinking very seriously about not allowing my daughter to go to the University of Massachusetts...
...President himself knows why he chose to remain silent. If he had submitted a specific plan, Russell probably would have gotten it included in the compromise version. Throughout the summer, even after the bill had become law, Russell offered to give any specific random system "expeditious" hearings before his Senate committee. Still, the President remained silent, except to express his displeasure at the lottery...