Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find out, it is only to be in control of ending her life whenever she wants. She has hidden bottles of sleeping pills all over the house. Diana and Deric are finally allowed to see their file when one consultant tells them the reason they have not gotten any help is because the first doctor who ever saw her diagnosed her as suffering from hysteria. Since then all the other doctors have subscribed to the first docotor's diagnosis. Angry, frustrated and humiliated, Diana and Deric give up on the medical community and fight the illness on their...
...this century, at the same time a humorist?" I think that whoever does not laugh when reading his novels...does not understand them." Havel's 1984 play, "Largo Desolato: A Play in Seven Scenes," presents the comic and hauntingly Kafkaesque world of Professor Leopold, a philosopher who has gotten into "trouble" for expounding on "intellectual hooliganism" in a recent treatise...
...founded on the ideas of female ritual and manner. She claims that the missing Mrs. Thorwald would not have left without her favorite handbag which hangs on her bedpost. Nor would she have left all her jewelry at home, much less in the handbag where it would have gotten tangled-up and scratched. And she absolutely would not have left her wedding ring. So she was murdered. L.B. Jeffries, "Jeff" for short, wants to know what Mr. Thorwald was doing making three trips to and from his apartment at three in the morning with his salesman's case...
Paul has convinced himself that he's doing this for some high, noble purpose. Nope. He's doing this so he can be NO. 1. You notice that he only found the school's system unfair after the fact. If he had gotten the top ranking out of this, he'd find it perfectly just...
...unfair? Sorry. Many things in life are unfair. If Paul hadn't gotten to be valedictorian because of the color of his skin, that would be unfair. If he had been denied it because the principal didn't like him, that would be unfair. If he had been second-ranked because someone had altered his grades in the records, that would be unfair...