Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...league game provides an excellent testing ground for new plays and new players. Got an end-around you want to try? Give it a go against Bucknell. If it works, you can spring it on Princeton or Penn later in the season. If it fails, you can forget about...
...clobbered, you can just forget about it. You still have the same league record. You still are in the hunt for the league crown...
...talk to them." Whatever Janis did, it succeeded. "For the next week we had five sailors working on our engine. They filled our icebox with steak and ice cream. And all around us was this harbor of poverty. It was horrible, and it was heaven. I'll never forget...
...rabid union-man" after betraying his fellow actors while president of the Screen Actors Guild and busting the air-traffic controllers union when president of the United States. He tells Israeli and Jewish leaders he filmed death camps at the end of World War II "so I'd never forget," yet he spent the war at home. No matter that many of his stories are false and others distant memories of movies seen long ago: He's just making a point. And Americans, who twice have elected him President, are complicit in the make believe...
...youth. Naipaul passionately annotates the splendors he observes surrounding the manor cottage: "The beauty of the place, the great love I had grown to feel for it, greater than for any other place I had known." Mixed with this euphoria, though, are some troubling recognitions. The writer cannot forget that he is an "alien" in this paradise, racially distinct, a former colonial subject of the power and wealth that made such a place possible: "Fifty years ago there would have been no room for me on the estate; even now my presence was a little unlikely." Worse, having come upon...