Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time, things have gotten pretty much out of control in the audience, anyway. Numerous bottles of bubbly have been carried into the house after the intermission, and there is much merriment Behind me, a sloshed woman loudly asks her escort to explain a pun "What's that mean--penis?" At one poirt, cries of "Freshman Mixer" and "Buzz Aldren!" go up. In the center section, guest-of-honor Steven Spielberg, the Pudding's newly crowned Man of year, looks mildly bewildered. E.T., after all never had too deal with alumni...
...torturing the new cadets, since he didn't like the practice when it was done to him? Or when the good Will recruits a hardy band of disciples, and one of them, Judas-like, betrays him several scenes later? Even the casting department of the film seems to have gotten into the Christian imagery act, choosing for the part of Will David Keith, who is magically resurrected on screen since his death at the end of his last film, An Officer and a Gentleman...
Cerva and the tutors interviewed agreed that based on course evaluations, students seem to consider the tutorials worthwhile. "I've gotten nothing but positive feedback from students, and some called it their best course at Harvard," said Grant M. Carow, a biology tutor...
...farewell messages which annually fill this space, many of my predecessors have gotten the same subject out of context. They have erred toward excessive disdain, describing a Harvard that transformed classmates into sniveling pre-professional sycophants, traumatized by callous bureaucrats, elitist professors and pitiless academic advisors. Naturally, then, the beleaguered undergraduate wretches lack the heart for political commitment...
...North Carolina. Uh, the law forbids me to consult with him [Mr. Reagan] and it's been an awkward situation, I've had to, sort of, talk indirectly to Paul Laxalt [Reagan's campaign chairman] and hope that he would pass along... I think the messages have gotten through all right...