Word: forget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...never forget how well you responded to such pressure. And, as the playoffs begin, you thank yourself for having learned so much in that first game...
...benefit from the amnesty are the right-wing national guardsmen who killed four U.S. churchwomen in 1980, and the leftist guerrillas who gunned down four U.S. Marines in 1985. The amnesty, said Salvadoran Vice President Rodolfo Castillo Claramount, "represents a broad, generous offer within the concept of forgive and forget...
...Caldwell, who majored in art history at Barnard, earns a salary in the low six figures and she spends accordingly. "I have every credit card known to man, but this morning I cut some up," she admits. Caldwell plans to keep the mink coat she bought last month, but forget about those $100 dinners for two. "I'll be staying home more to cook the two things I know, an omelet and Lean Cuisine...
Hopefully, you no longer object to sentences that begin with the modifier hopefully. If you do, forget it; the battle is lost. On the other hand, if you still insist that infer and imply mean two different things, hang tough, despite accusations of being a word prig; this is one the word prigs could win. As for the plural-singular identity crises suffered by words like data and media, stand by; they could go either...
Nobody who saw them in the early '60s can forget the impact of Stella's first "minimalist" works, the black-stripe paintings, done when he was in his 20s and just out of Princeton. One is apt to think of abstract artists' careers beginning in complexity and ending in reduction with the wisdom of age, like Mondrian's. Stella, so far, has inverted this: he started out polemical and bare, but has complicated his art to the point of apoplexy. Episode II, in which our hero goes nuts in the tropics, battles with spotted fluorescent snakes but does find...