Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...British-born Lynda, a stewardess supervisor, met at a restaurant in Detroit, where Bailey was trying a case. When he first saw her she was sitting at a table with one of his associates reading a paperback novel. Bailey walked up to the table and grumped, "Forget that trash and read something worthwhile." He threw down a copy of The Defense Never Rests. As Lynda tells it: "I had never before heard of Lee Bailey. I called him a proper cocky bastard. He fired back a comment and we got into a little battle...
...college accepted Hargis' offer to return. The decision was risky, says Loyalist Jess Pedigo, president of Hargis' David Livingstone Missionary Foundation. "We thought his coming back might have been premature, but he was a broken man. He was truly repentant, and we urged him to forget the past. 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.' " Perhaps more to the point, adds Pedigo, "There was a danger of bankruptcy...
...their parents, one father, who reports that his son's three-year involvement with Hargis began at age 15 or 16, wept as he said, "I will forgive him his sins because God's Word tells me what I must do, but I will never forget his acts against...
...life and work, gave meaning to the term "people's artist." He devoted his enormous artistic talents to the struggle against racism, against the McCarthyite reaction, and against imperialism. His success in his chosen careers of professional sports, film and stage acting, and singing, did not cause him to forget that his success was unique--that the overwhelming majority of American blacks, and indeed the overwhelming majority of American workers, do not and cannot escape their destitute origins...
...like most of the students at Harvard, your I.D. card is just a 2 in. by 3 in. slip of plastic with a picture you'd rather forget, a nine-digit number you wish you could remember, and a little black stripe that serves absolutely no purpose...