Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victories gave Coach Cooney Weiland's golfers a chance to forget Thursday's demoralizing loss to Holy Cross, which had broken a four-match winning streak...
SMALL dinners are usually stuffy affairs. People sit uneasily around the table and present the Name with stock questions. And the Name, who needs only about three minutes to decide that held better forget about eating, painfully replies with careful answers. No one learns very much. On occasion, if the Name is unusually relaxed or the wine is particularly good, or the cigars 15 inches long, Himself will explain how he got started and what it was like...
...carrying with them money, and technical know-how, deserted their country. And many of these people were consciously lured away by the West Germans. In an open letter to the Social Democratic Party of West Germany in February 1966, Walter Ulbricht wrote: "We have not forgotten, and shall not forget, how, supported and guided by the government of the West German Federal Republic, systematic attempts were made to disorganize the health system of the [GDR German Democratic Republic] by enticing medical specialists. This disruptive activity was systematically concentrated on individual towns and boroughs and great damage was suffered...
Said Robert Motherwell: "I have a deep respect for Pollock. After a slow start, like Van Gogh, he skyrocketed for a few years." Added Richard Lindner: "He broke through the traditions of the European painters. Don't forget the time-when he painted, America was very dependent on European tradition. In 50 years, Pollock will probably be more important than he is today-maybe not as a painter, but for liberation." Said Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning, who did not attend the opening: "Pollock broke...
...Morals, must be set the preposterous practice of his own love life-a comedy more apparent to the reader than to the author. He was a puritan possessed of, or by, a powerful sexual nature. He tells about his industrious masturbation-at 94, he should surely allow himself to forget what he was doing at 15-and of the first time he fell in love, presumably with someone other than himself. His unhappy choice was Alys Pearsall Smith, who came from a family of rich emigre Philadelphia Quakers. She used the Friends' virtue of truth-telling as a cozy...