Word: forgetability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pulls the release. "PUNCH." He punches open the imaginary auxillary chute: the litany for a jumper after exiting the plane. If the main chute doesn't open after a count of six-thousand, you must pull the reserve. After 17 seconds, he tells us, you may as well forget your reserve--skydiving becomes a "contact sport...
Student groups and candidates went on the offensive, trying to pull in votes before students could forget about city politics. The Harvard-Radcliffe Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (DSOC) and the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee(SASC) endorsed David Sullivan, who in turn toured most dorms here in search of voters. Some of the students Sullivan met were informed, a few well enough to argue the Ec 10 line against rent control. Some were amazed to learn that they could even vote--like the Mather House resident who insisted he wasn't on the list. "I registered as a freshman...
When asked specifically about Chappaquiddick, 76% say, as did 79% in a TIME poll a year ago, that "it is time to forget Chappaquiddick and judge Kennedy by what he has done since then." Similarly, 63% say that the accident should not be an issue in the campaign. Nonetheless, 44% say that they are still bothered by Kennedy's part in the incident. Among independents and Democrats who prefer Carter to Kennedy, that figure is higher (55%), suggesting that Chappaquiddick is costing Kennedy support...
...look like human beings in the accepted sense of the term but rather like wild animals, completely brutalized. They slept huddled side by side like beasts in a cage. They seldom spoke and kept their eyes cast downward. They seemed so pathetic that it was almost possible to forget the abominable cruelties they had committed in trying to establish a new Communist civilization at a cost of millions of Cambodian lives...
...their sunken vessel by blowing oxygen out of their lungs. The image is as oppressive as the tower is tall. Worse, though, Mr. Farnham is moved by the tower's presence to utter homage to the "frogman" who works inside the tower, grabbing men out of the water who forget to blow bubbles...