Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...valuable to the eventual winner of the post. "A person without experience or familiarity would be at some disadvantage [in the selection process]." But he added that the successful candidate would not necessarily be a Harvard-Radcliffe graduate, saying, "There are a number of ways a person might have gotten that contact...
...before I left for Harvard, I put together a make-shift campaign headquarters on a shoestring budget with no telephones. It represented one of the only contributions the Democratic organization would let me make to a backward, lethargic campaign. Democrats had gotten so comfortable with idea of doing nothing and losing comfortably that they were completely surprised by the idea of an active (maybe even winning) campaign...
...very glad to have gotten a vote of confidence," she said...
...country where convicted murderers are sentenced to an average of 20 years, Bakker's punishment seemed excessive and arbitrary to many people. "Before some judges, Bakker might have gotten off with little more than probation," said a federal judge, who declined to be identified...
...This house is one of the best we've gotten," Sister Grace says as she appraises the building. "It is everyone working together that makes this happen. That is love of neighbor. Little by little you take each family and do what...