Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have very little time, and I do not have very much strength. I do not want to remember -- I want to forget, because the life we live in Gorky is so different from life in the U.S. and normal life in general. These are not memoirs -- everything is too close and too painful for that. A diary would be good, but in our life it is impossible to write a diary; it is bound to end up in the wrong hands. More than anything else, this is a chronicle...
...Forget the legal niceties of how such "unwarranted searches" may violate civil rights. The judge could have ruled the other way. Consider the case of another screening issue in which the Justice Department decided last June that those who test positive for the AIDS virus are not protected under civil rights law from discrimination by their employers...
Sometimes the news becomes more numerical than physical. Four Blacks killed by police. Hmm, we think, that's two more than yesterday. One more and the Sox clinch. We forget that those numbers are people, that those paragraphs are pain. That the boy was a real boy, with a real rubber bullet in his brain...
Early this year, Democratic Pollster Peter Hart noted the lack of broad, cutting issues. "If there is a single message voters want to send in 1986," he advised his party, "it is 'Care about me, don't forget about me, and don't sell me out.' " That theme had particularly loud resonance in this year's primaries; with turnout even lower than usual, activists who cared enough to vote gave the results a strongly populist tilt...
...face of the opposition, Spence halted Brinkley's review, the sources said. "If Handlin and Fleming turn their thumbs down on someone, you can forget it; he's not going through," said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard Frye, a History Department member...