Word: forget
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tolerate first-class men around them," he once wrote. "They separate the men from the boys, and hire the boys." By a stroke of luck, Gardner had 14 top-level positions in HEW to fill when he took over. Lyndon Johnson gave him a free hand in filling them ("Forget about any political considerations"), and Gardner picked men for the jobs...
...negative income tax, particularly after defense spending is reduced. But the veterans will find their experience in the arts of warfare of little use in peacetime. Coming disproportionately from the lower middle class, they must return to a society that is grateful for their service, but eager to forget the war. Embittered and disillusioned by a negotiated peace that cannot possibly offer total victory, they must compete in an economy that has grown more and more competitive and demanding; contend with a political system that appears more and more beyond their influence and understanding...
...have Marshall McLuhan and Bob Dylan, and who can forget Colonel "Shorty" Powers, sometime Voice of Project Mercury, describing Gus Grissom's first landing? "The drogue parachute is deployed, and the astronaut has a visual indication of it" (The drogue chute is open, and Gus can see it), and "The astronaut has indicated that he will proceed to effect egress" (Gus says he's coming...
...told someone that we preferred for Mrs. Kennedy to use these quarters. I shall never forget her bravery, nobility, and dignity...
Djilas' pardon was part of a new forgive-and-forget policy that the Yugoslav President suddenly seems to be favoring. Last month Tito also pardoned another former Vice President, Aleksandar Ranković, who, as the country's security chief, had not only plotted an anti-Tito conspiracy, but actually went so far as to bug Tito's home and office...