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Word: gotten (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as things will be better for the children all is well. But now these children, who have grown up and are applying to college and med school and law school, are finding that many of the places in these schools are going to minority students who may have gotten lower grades and test scores than they have...

Author: By Eric B. Fried, | Title: A Weed Grows in Brooklyn | 1/5/1978 | See Source »

...university chapel for eulogies and prayers. On Sunday fans paid their last respects to the team at a memorial service in Roberts Stadium. The rest of the basketball season has been canceled. Said Junior Rory Hennings, 20, a close friend of four players who died: "I hadn't gotten to see them play this year because I was working the night of the only home game. Now I'm never going to see them play again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Holiday Eve Disasters | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

...could have gotten peace by going to Geneva, O.K. But that is not the situation. Our political struggle based on 242 and Geneva no longer applies. That route is blocked. So we must find a new way. But how? We should not stop our political struggle, and we can continue it through the United Nations, alliances, and through meetings like the one in Tripoli...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Habash: Israel Will Fall | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...corporation's drive built momentum. Christmas Long Weekend expanded into Christmas Week, then Christmas Month. Instead of one jolly old elf, "Santa" came to mean a conglomerate of ambitious, clean-shaven young elves, each with a Masters in Business Administration. Old Santa, realizing that things had gotten out of hand, railed once again against the changes, and filed suit in Hoozie court, claiming that he still held certain key patent rights to aerial reindeer sleighs. But The Santa Corporation retained elves who specialized in festive law, and anyway, elf-scientists working at the corporation's North Pole South Building...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: A Christmas Fable | 12/9/1977 | See Source »

...fund could keep freshmen from being miserable, Young said, adding, however, that "all people who need help have probably gotten...

Author: By Bruce E. Ellerin, | Title: Freshman Coat Fund Depleted | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

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