Word: gotten
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...write fiction, though I would like to tell you that I think Days of Obligation is a novel. These are 10essays that imply a novel. It's my journey in reverse, there's a narrative chain to this that a lot of reviewers have not gotten, but that's their problem. There's this woman at The Boston Globe--Miss Pamela Hightower or somebody--and she says, "This young man quite clearly has a chip on his shoulder." I have no chip on my shoulder at all; I have the universe on my shoulder, and she doesn't understand this...
...that week hadn't happened, I could have gotten really sick. I could have died," she says. "I'm lucky to have figured that out before I left Harvard...
...Mallgrave] was unbelievable. Without his goals, we couldn't have gotten the win. He was just super," Drury said...
After all, the man is notoriously averse to conflict. But he's already gotten a taste of the kind of controversy the gays-in-uniform issue engenders, and whether he likes it or not, this issue will be the first major test of his ability to satisfy the broad coalition that elected him without disappointing the liberals who represent his roots...
...funny situation," Sheronas says. "I was rooting for Yale, but my friend was rooting for Harvard, and since he had gotten us the tickets, we were sitting on the Harvard side of the stadium...