Word: forget
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found in Chinese society forgotten revolutionary hopes transplanted from their own, and many Chinese discovered an unsuspected delight (even Mao finally did) in the mobility and openness of American society, the antithesis of China's own introspective and hierarchical world. In the late 1970s, many Americans are inclined to forget their view of the Chinese, during the Korean War, as a menacing ant-people in quilted jackets swarming across the Yalu River and brainwashing American innocents...
...theory will be in effect. If the oil workers agree to a moderate contract, the Teamsters may follow, and then other unions. But, says one Administration official, "if OCAW busts the guidelines, then we will lose the [Teamsters'] master freight agreement, and if we lose that we can forget about the whole guidelines program." At this stage, no one can tell which way the dominoes will fall...
Clearly the time has come to forget the Alamo, to struggle down memories of the glorious oil nationalization and to try some creative horse trading. President Carter will journey to Mexico in mid-February to trade abrazos and to parley in his struggling Spanish with President Lopez Portillo. Now that Congress has passed the energy bill and U.S. natural gas prices will rise in January, Carter can comfortably sweeten the price for Pemex gas. In order to encourage Mexico's struggling agriculture and industry, and to relieve its population pressures, he would do well to promise higher economic aid, lower...
...most dangerous players next year." But there remains that worry about the rookie's uncertain temper. "He needs to learn some humor," advises Nastase. McEnroe, who has been told to straighten up by his father, realizes his shortcomings. "I'm still in the process of learning, of trying to forget about the spectators and the linesmen," he says. "I do want to change...
...rhythms of the Twentieth Century Limited, which she had boarded in 1943 to start her film career. The exception is when she recounts Bogart's stoic struggle with terminal cancer. Here her prose becomes spare and piercing: "I sat with him, had coffee-he still couldn't forget the night before. I asked him if he felt better. 'It's always better in the daylight.' Sun day School was short, I had to collect my babies-I said I'd be right back and kissed him as I always did. Newspapers later printed that...