Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said, "but I know one that I didn't have-reluctance!" Hubert allowed as how he had done some research on former Vice Presidents, and on their contributions to the office. He had found them, he said wryly, a most illustrious group. "Who can forget those storied Vice Presidents of the past?" he cried. "William A. Wheeler! Daniel D. Tomkins! Garret A. Hobart! and Henry Wilson!"* Thoroughly elated but also slightly troubled by his new position, Humphrey insisted to friends that "things will be just like they always have been between Muriel and me and our friends...
...fears of nuclear war and the loss of Government economic benefits. Moreover the Republicans had failed to "accentuate the positive," added Morton, had oversimplified complex problems such as Viet Nam, and had alienated the Negro vote. "There are those in our party, both North and South, who say 'Forget the Negro vote.' Well, the Negro vote in the South is going to be more important than the Negro vote in Detroit, in Cleveland, in Chicago, in St. Louis, San Francisco, Philadelphia or New York." The G.O.P., said Morton, must gain in the South, "but not on a racist...
...braggart, turncoat and warmonger, he was many times defeated at the polls, swept from high office, made the scapegoat of others' failures. But if Churchill was sometimes wrong, on the great issues of his times he was most often right. History will forgive his faults; it can never forget the indomitable, imperturbable spirit that swept a people to greatness...
...Celtics do it? They have a brilliant coach in Arnold ("Red") Auerbach, 47, a cantankerous carrottop who tells his players: "If any of you think this is a democracy we are running here, forget it. I'm a dictator." They also have pro basketball's best defensive player in Bill Russell, a goateed giant who leads the N.B.A. in rebounds, ranks fourth in assists...
...Forget free speech in this case. Even if you grant that it is not technically the issue on the campus, is the demand for the right to partake in full and unfettered political and social action too much to ask in a democracy...