Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst thing was that at first we weren'teven going to do anything," Williamson said."We've gotten so accustomed to the racialinsensitivity of the police that we didn't thinkabout it at first...
...think he just cracked after the first game," Ezra said. "It felt particularly good considering I'd gotten creamed in the regular season. He had a lot of support and it felt really great to silence the crowd...
...Harvard vocabulary. In this week's plea for our money, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles noted that "nearly 70 percent [of undergraduates] have some form of aid, such as loans and jobs." We at Dartboard have gotten used to saying we are concentrators (not majors), who eat in dining halls (not cafeterias). But discovering that we "receive aid" instead of "get paid" for our jobs is going a bit too far. The Financial Aid office helped not a whit in finding Dartboard's non-work study, term-time job making Xeroxes and running errands for $6.50 an hour...
...Actually last year I figured out how to make something that tastes just like Mexican fried ice cream. It's very simple: you take vanilla fro-yo and cover it with Just Right cereal. And this year I've gotten far bolder. After the salad bar thing worked out, I spent some time experimenting with sushi...
...Well I have to say that I've not acquired any nicknames. But I've gotten a lot of response, which is nice. I think it's because everyone is trapped in the dining hall, and they have to read the table card. If you want to write something that every undergraduate will read, put it right on that table card...