Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twilight of his long and laudable career, Bernard Baruch was invariably characterized as an adviser to Presidents or a park-bench philosopher who doled out wisdom from a seat in Central Park or Lafayette Square. Admirers tended to forget-Baruch never did-that in the forenoon of that career, he had also been one of Wall Street's craftiest speculators. Baruch could be bearish or bullish. He once sold Amalgamated Copper short and realized $700,000 when Amalgamated reduced a dividend, causing its overpriced stock to tumble. Another time, alerted by a newspaperman that Commodore Schley had beaten...
Quite possibly, Romney did not fully comprehend the implications of that ugly term to brainwash.* In any case, it is unlikely that his opponents in either party will allow him to forget his gaffe-not to mention the cartoonists, who henceforth will surely not miss a chance to picture the Governor's cranium wreathed in detergent foam. And all can do it with impunity, since he did it to himself...
...eldest of three sons of a well-to-do Rhode Island family, Owen last fall returned to Stanford, where he smoothly resumed his studies, zestfully plunged into the social whirl and earned a commendable 3.2 grade average. But all the while, he could not forget the challenges of Viet Nam. "There's a world of reality out there," he wrote a friend, "and sometimes it makes this one seem strange...
...been racing for money ever since he turned 21, belongs to the new school: the cool, engineer-minded youngsters who talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "foot-pounds of torque" and bristle at any mention of the sport's indecorous beginnings. "Why don't people just forget about all that?" complains Petty, who answers to no nicknames ("If my mother wanted me called Dick, she would have named me Dick"), neither smokes nor drinks, shuns sportswriters, photographers and auto graph seekers, and insists: "If there is any glamour in this sport, I haven't found...
...Times's Gerald Walker, and he has no regrets. "During my entire six years of freelancing," he says, "I thought of almost nothing but money, as most freelancers do. Now I expend about one-fifth the energy as an editor, and I go home at 5:30 and forget about it until the next day." But in spite of all the hazards, freelancers continue to avoid the temptations of security. At one point when he was feeling "particularly unstable," Brock Brower applied for a college teaching job. When he was accepted, he told himself: "Oh, to hell with...