Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Loeb was not the same scientist; though he reached his greatest acclaim then as a scientific commentator on the issues of ethics and welfare important to everyman, he himself turned to his laboratory because it allowed him to forget the world outside...
...Just one of those days," said Feula--we had them before and there wasn't much you could do about it. On Saturday you had to forget about mistakes and play...
...Pope did not forget the 65 million Catholics who live under Communism. Among those elevated to the purple were two prelates no longer in command of their sees: Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, who came to Rome in 1963 after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, and Czech Primate Josef Beran, who is still under virtual house arrest near Prague. One new East European cardinal who does govern his diocese is Yugoslavia's Primate, Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb. His careful policy of accommodation with Tito may lead to a restoration of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Yugoslavia...
...perfectly you did it! What better mockery than to have Faye Levine, one of your own, run for Class Marshal with your flawless argument, "She gets a degree from Harvard University." Perhaps people will forget that students from the Law School, Medical School and GSAS (including women) also get Harvard diplomas and even march in the commencement procession. Nobody will remember that Radcliffe College and Harvard College are two of many schools in Harvard University. But it worked, people did forget and there was Faye in the Boston Globe. While she was obviously ineligible and probably did not want...
...novel he sits by the telephone, appealing to his family and friends. But when he asks for help-a loan, a job, information about Marie, a kind word-he gets nothing. Thus the novel assembles a bitterly accurate rogues' gallery of German types, all so cheerily conniving to forget how they once so cheerily connived with the Nazis. Yet Böll lacks the slashing, ultimately healing fury of Günter Grass. The Clown comes to an abrupt end when the hero, stripped of hope, puts on his whiteface makeup and goes out to beg among the costumed...