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Word: forget (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more complex, the risks keep rising, and each year the amounts that Lloyd's underwriters pay out on litigious losses, from oil tanker disasters to Mafia-set arson jobs, keep swelling. Yet this year is one that even Lloyd's risk-hardened underwriters are not likely to forget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fabled Lloyd's Takes a Bath | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

Luckily, Lamont didn't have to go it alone, though. The academic brass led him by the hand, providing him with "typical" students--a couple of pre-meds, a pre-law student, a few women, not to forget a smattering of minorities--all chosen by the front office, the University administrators. Lamont explains "I could waste time randomly interviewing, but I wanted to make it as scientific as I could...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Speaking for Himself | 7/6/1979 | See Source »

...some thing like U-2 overflights. There is now widespread resignation in Washington that the damage done by the Cyprus crisis five years ago will never be fully repaired. Many in the Government see the U.S. as having abused a valued friendship. Says one U.S. diplomat: "People tend to forget that our three most important and successful postwar ventures in promoting democracy were Germany, Japan and Turkey." After a pause, he adds ruefully, "Of course, the Turks have practiced democracy so well that it often gets them tied into knots, as is happening right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Delicate Relationship | 7/2/1979 | See Source »

...that attitude, especially as the power of the Western myth dimmed. His heroes were not like Hemingway's. They did not have grace under pressure; they had instead a stubbornness -foolish, willful and glorious-when they were caught between the rock and the hard place. We could not forget Wayne if we tried. Those images of a big man etched against the big Western sky were part of the experience of growing up in America in the past half-century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Duke: Images from a Lifetime | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...existence of such places. They cannot be ignored, but neither can they be considered for too long without jeopardizing sanity. Styron treads a middle course. He keeps the horror at arm's length, in the past and in another country, but offers a heroine-victim who can forget nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Riddle of a Violent Century | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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