Word: forget
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after-action briefing he gave. Retired Captain Michael Rose, the Tailwind medic, told Pentagon investigators that he had no doubt the fumes he inhaled were tear gas, just like the whiffs he got in basic training. "It's like skunk," he said. "Once you smell it, you never forget." And, the Pentagon said, two ex-service members that the original report said had scouted the enemy camp before the attack were in fact never in Laos...
...them and help their countries build fresh ties. "I am not naive about Iran, but I think it is important to understand one another's feelings," says Rosen, 54, director of public affairs for Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York City. "I don't have to forgive and forget. But we are trying to restart this relationship, and this is an important beginning." Agrees Abdi, 42, a columnist for Salam, a Tehran newspaper: "The aim is to contribute to a better understanding and promote a normalization of relations...
...time trying to improve the picture of themselves that's in the record. Monica Lewinsky subjected herself to glitz-porn on the beach in an effort to replace that awful shot of her in the beret. In hiring a spokesman, Kenneth Starr was hoping we'd forget that picture of him smiling insipidly in his driveway while holding a black plastic bag of garbage. The President hopes that pictures of him toasting world leaders will replace the picture of him chewing his lower lip while being evasive about Lewinsky. And why did Linda Tripp show up at the grand jury...
With all the debate about whether health insurers will pay for Viagra, it's easy to forget that many women aren't even covered for the Pill. Now Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine is pushing a bill that would require large plans that cover drugs to pay for all prescription forms of birth control. About half of all plans, including Kaiser Permanente and Prudential, now cover some form of protection, from the Pill to diaphragms and IUDs...
...angst in songs like A Kiss Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, or the yearning, over-the-top lyrics like "If all that died again would grow.../ These are the loneliest words I know," have inspired fresh passion and urgency (and a good beat) in Lloyd Webber's music. Forget that falling chandelier; Steinman has brought Lloyd Webber back to the land of the living...