Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taiwan, in its belief that it will liberate the mainland, is "like somebody that's had a love affair and never gotten over it," Fairbank said...
...wealth that Venezuela had gained as a result of the rise in oil prices after 1973. Though the money enabled the Pérez administration to triple government spending in five years, to $10.7 billion in 1978, many of Venezuela's 13 million citizens felt that they had gotten less than a trickle of the oil windfall. Venezuela's per capita income has risen sharply and is now, at $2,357, South America's highest, but poverty is still widespread. Highly skilled jobs often go begging, but within sight of Caracas' high-rise skyline hundreds...
...that it was impractical at last year's corporation hearing, and I believe the same thing now. This year's progress has not even met my meager expectations. Half of the committee has studied, though not evaluated according to plan, three corporations. That's as far as we have gotten. A unified treatment is necessary for this reason and others which I listed in Appendix C of the last ACSR report...
...mailed on May 24, was made public on June 7. The scholarship offer played second controversy for a while, though, because Hanfstaengl also soon announced that he would indeed attend the reunion. He caught a plane to the coast, and set sail aboard the last steamship that could have gotten him to America in time for the ceremonies. Radical groups, including the National Student League, were unable to persuade the State Department to keep him out of the country. Debarking in New York, he was met with a demonstration, but he managed to avoid a planned protest in Boston when...
Meanwhile, the parents heartily compliment each others' daughters. "Weezie is certainly a picture tonight," ventures one man to a beaming woman. "Isn't she?" responds Weezie's mother. "I'm so proud of that girl, the way she's gotten hold of herself. She really messed up her life a few years back, just messed...