Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closely. Wilde's jokes can easily be over-exploited, with the result that you laugh hard at the outset, but tire around the middle when the characters become little more than the jokes they spout. It is rather like watching a star-studded cast and not being able to forget who they...
...Council demonstrated conclusively during the first 45 days of the new year. All January and part of February, the Council completely ignored the Inner Belt and concentrated instead on a heated personal battle over the removal of City Manager John J. Curry '19. That the Council was able to forget the Belt so easily must raise questions about the depth and sincerity of its opposition...
...explanation is as simple as it is distressing, according to Lilly D. Hoekstra, administrator of St. Louis Children's Hospital. "Mothers," she said, "leave the pills in a conspicuous place so they won't forget to take them." In modest doses the pills are probably not dangerous, but a month's supply may make a toddler miserably ill. The prime remedy, as in most childhood poisonings, is ipecac to get the victim to vomit...
...issue of the 16th century. Modern social historians, eager to prove that the Protestant Reformation was a social upheaval portending the birth of industrial civilization, too often forget that in a deeper sense it was a spiritual earthquake that violently reorganized the religious basis of human beings in the Western world. To read this book is to experience that earthquake. First published in 1563, while the temblors of terror were still rolling across Europe, The Actes and Monuments of the Latter Perilous Dayes was the work of John Foxe, an industrious Anglican divine who described two centuries of Protestant persecution...
...fire was so heavy that for nearly a day in one paddy area the marines had to forget their hallowed rule that no body be left on the battlefield. As the marines fought toward the 36th's command post, they met machine-gun nests so tightly held that only flamethrowers could knock them out. But in the end, the 36th was decimated, with over 600 confirmed dead and perhaps as many again killed but uncounted, while allied casualties were "light...