Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Gotten are stoic and gallant, while the hysteric (Lee Grant) is hysterical...
Robert E. Kaufmann '62, assistant dean of the Faculty for financial affairs, said yesterday, "I believe that when something like this has gotten as far as it has, it is likely that it will be approved" by the Trustees...
...wrong--I like football as well as the next guy and I suppose you could make a case that I like it even a little more. But this spring practice stuff has gotten more than a little out of hand. For example at USC the first day out in pads the coaching staff put the squad through a full-speed, full-contact scrimmage that put a number of ballplayers in the training room--and the hospital. You might say that's life but this ain't even football season. Spring practice is supposed to be a learning experience...
...Dawkins," writes Emmerich, "has gotten too wrapped up in his theories of genetic determinism to admit that cultural and environmental influences also affect behavior" and says that it is not until the last chapter that Dawkins "finally acknowledges that humans can 'rebel' against their 'selfish genes'." But, on page three, Dawkins states...
...your shorts, go out in the freezing rain and pound heads and smash bodies together for two hours before lunch. Then, after you've gotten so cold, wet and bruised that you feel like crawling into your General Electric toaster-oven, go out and do it again. Sounds a bit crazy? Well, that's rugby...