Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, says Senator Ferdinando Imposimato, a former magistrate who handled many a Mafia case, the Mob can be defeated "by isolating the Mafiosi as the ((Red Brigades)) terrorists were isolated and fought by a unified country." Not to forget international cooperation: roundups like last week's on both sides of the Atlantic could be a small but useful beginning in the struggle...
Will any fan forget that day in 1987 when Schmitty gleefully trotted around the bases at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium after hitting his 500th home run? Back then, anyone who knew anything about baseball was calling Schmidt one of the all time greats...
...Everyone remembered it," senior Sarah Duncan added. "It's hard to forget a loss like that...
THIS unfair definition of intelligence seems to be partly rooted in childhood insecurities. It is difficult to forget those early years of school when the teacher passed back a corrected quiz and we students fidgeted nervously, anxious over whether we got a smiley-face sticker on the top of our paper. Then some students needed to reassure themselves that they had done well by asserting that someone else had done worse. Then the mean-spiritedness of childhood emerged, and words like "stupid" and "dummy" entered children's vocabularies. These insecurities followed us to adulthood, and our biases about intelligence remain...
...forget Harvard. The women "shaved" and "tapered" for the meet, going all out to win in their home pool. If one "shaves" one removes all the hair from the body in order to decrease drag. To "taper is to cut down on the length and intensity of practices before a meet so that one is rested for the meet...