Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kane recently received notice that he has not gotten any of the positions he applied for and will go into the business world next year, according to the e-mail...
...senior, who was too afraid to give his name, continued, "If I hadn't gotten the message saying that I was picked, I wouldn't have done the Data-match...
Shookley said a group of swimmers, who had taken advantage of the Early Bird hours at the MAC pool, had gotten together to discuss the closing...
...month, but it didn't and it hasn't, and now some experts say it won't. It won't tonight, anyway. So they're tipping better. "People were cheap for a while," says waitress Cynthia Cruz. "But now they're getting more and more generous. Things have definitely gotten good...
...course, a clever person in this situation can find one thing to complain about: things have gotten too placid, too settled, too nice. Aren't we really happiest in times of great conflict and danger? The novelist Walker Percy raised this point in his essays years ago. "Why," he asked, "is [a] man apt to feel good in a very bad environment, say an old hotel on Key Largo during a hurricane?" Percy discussed the estrangement of the commuter passing through New Jersey: his needs are entirely satisfied, but he feels bad. "The Bomb would seem to be sufficient reason...