Word: forget
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...without any respect for anyone, defying human perception. Look at it: it is only an image, the stark print of a monolith, pasted on blue paper. Touch it-it is mere granite. It makes no noise, has no odor. Even as you shiver in its shadow, you forget it exists...
...feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close to the White House we forget that four times as many people have attended college football games the same...
...racial trouble was caused by outsiders, and insisted: "The people of Roxbury have been living in harmony with the rest of the city for years." This philosophy reassured an electorate that was looking outside the city for answers to its internal problems. With matronly pollworkers suggesting, "Don't forget Louise," she devastated the field...
...Heart's Solitude. Increasingly, he notes, "there is but one way into the future: the technological way." Again and again, he tries to sober us up about the Great White Prophets in smocks. The new faith in computers, he warns, has made us forget the old wisdom of fairy tales: there is a frontier to man's kingdom where "predictability ceases and the unimaginable begins...
...teacher, a coach. or just a friend, Getch is what you might call a "character." Surely, no one who has known him will ever forget him. As he prepared his 6-1 Yardlings for their last three games this week, he paused to say, "It's been a wonderful 14 years." Then his thoughts turned back to Princeton, Brown, and Yale...