Word: gotten
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Area residents have started a trust fund for Andrea and a legal-defense fund for Williams. Contributions in $5 and $10 amounts arrive daily. "We've gotten phone calls from Iowa, Utah, Florida, Delaware, you name it," says David Collins, a city councilman who has led the defense-fund drive. "last week a white man stopped his car in traffic and jumped out to say how much he was behind our efforts to help Willie and his little girl...
...fate of presidential press secretary James Brady, Reynolds lost his composure, turned his head into the newsroom behind him, and pleaded, "Let's get it nailed down somebody' Let's find out!" The remark was uncharacteristic and highly unusual, and for both those reasons it has gotten a lot of attention, as it did once again last week. It even prompted old hand Walter Cronkite to familiarize himself once again with the cameras and conclude. "Frank had a real emotional connection with the news. He felt it and sometimes he let that feeling show--and that's not always...
Barthelme doesn't want to chronicle the sexual revolution; he hasn't gotten that far. But he sees it rising around him and, like a man in a nightmare, hallucinates gigantic proportions on what is merely a small change in stature. Feminism for him doesn't mean that women have broken a little loose of the social straitjacket that once forbade them to call a man on the phone; initiate a choice of sexual partners rather than accept what circumstance deals them; or deviate from the admen's norm in clothing, speech and thought. No, the world since women...
Fitzsimmons sighs. "They may have been an excellent candidate and gotten edged out on that last...
...once thought that severely demented AD patients could not live very long. Today, says Chicago Neurologist Jacob Fox, they can survive for upwards of 15 years. "We've gotten better at preserving lives," he says, "but it's not clear we're doing the person a favor." Understandably, Alzheimer's patients can suffer severe depression. Their families may suffer even more. In addition to the enormous costs of health care and institutionalization, which is generally not covered by Medicare or private insurance, there is the terrible, haunting sense of loss to family members of the person...