Word: forgetability
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forget that during Sanders's Harvard tenure, his teams specialized in full-court communication lapses, low-key foul shots, lackadaisical dribbling and an otherwise uninspired brand of basketball...
...East is basically the sort of settlement some of us have been advocating for a long time. But this peace must come soon. With astonishing rapidity, Israelis develop emotional and historical attachments to land they originally took for temporary security. Arabs, while remembering the glorious victories of past centuries, forget the devastating defeats of recent years with equal speed. Bruce Hardcastle Washington...
...foreign exchange dealers it was a week to remember-or better still, forget. Not since the currency upheavals of 1973 have the world's money markets been in such turmoil. Once again the source of the trouble was the U.S. dollar. After slipping steadily in value all autumn, last week it went suddenly into a free-fall plunge that sent it skidding to postwar lows on money markets from Tokyo to Frankfurt. When the dust finally settled at week's end, a dollar could buy only 241 Japanese yen, 2.14 deutsche marks or 2.06 Swiss francs. Since January...
...extravaganza that few of the 3,500 guests from 43 nations would ever forget-or forgive. The scene was Bangui, dusty upriver capital of the Central African Empire (formerly Republic), and the event was the coronation last week of the continent's only Emperor since the deposition and death of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. Sweltering in the 100° heat and 90% humidity, the guests, in morning coats and Parisian gowns, struggled to attention as a voice boomed out over the loudspeaker: "Sa Majesté Impériale, I'Empereur Bokassa Premier...
Michel Guérard, 44, owner of a three-star restaurant in Eugénie-les-Bains, near Lourdes, and foremost practitioner of la cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness: "The most important tool of a chef is his tongue. Taste, taste, taste! And don't forget color. I combine my vegetables the way a painter arranges his colors-until he obtains the exact effect that he wants...