Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toilet paper tug-of-war at the Ames campus, about 30 miles north of Des Moines, has gotten national attention, and Collier said in a telephone interview that her phone hadn't stopped ringing since the story broke...
Hsiao, who currently works at First Boston Corporation in New York, recounted the tale of one woman she knew to demonstrate that the interviewing process can be "pretty unsettling." This woman had put her resume in with a number of investment banking firms and had gotten a lot of interviews. The first interview, however, unnerved her sufficiently to persuade her to cancel all the remaining interviews...
...Told that he would have to raise $4 million this year, he balked. "You know," Mathias observes, "Barry Goldwater said a couple of years ago that all of this money is a crisis of liberty. That was the phrase he used and it is not overstating it. It has gotten so pervasive that the Senate schedule now adjusts to fund raisers...
Taking a page from world-class swimmers, several team members have gotten haircuts and shaved their body hair so they can glide through the water more easily...
ISRAEL has fought six wars since its founding and in only one did it initiate hostilities. But Shipler's chapter on war is mostly a discussion of how Palestinians have gotten a raw deal from the Middle East's wars in general and the Lebanese War in particular. Nothing about how the Six-Day War started, or why the Yom Kippur War was fought...