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Word: forgetful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school, and I had the ability to succeed in those activities, but it's completely different at Harvard. There are too many activities with too many really talented people to give a status label to anything. You learn to do what you really want to do, and you forget pretty much about everybody else...

Author: By Robert M. Krim, | Title: Brass Tacks The Freshman Dean's Office | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

That really pissed him off, though. How could she forget that she had a date with him on Friday? I mean, no girl could just outright forget a date! He had stood there on the porch, stuttering and awkward, and suddenly they had kissed-a lingering, deep, open-mouthed kiss, much more than the peck he had anticipated-and then he, breathless, had said. "See you next Friday, okay?" and she had said, "Yes," and he said, "I'll call you next week, we'll probably see a movie," and then he had run all the way back...

Author: By Samuel Bonder, | Title: 'For Betty, With No Hard Feelings' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...learn all over again how to talk to normal people," he said. "I had to force myself to look a person in the eye and forget about myself while I tried to get inside his head. I had to schedule my day's activities according to The Man's requirements rather than to the cycle of my feelings...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Harvard and Your Head | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This the quantitative aspect of grading-we are, after all, getting five dollars a head for you dolts and therefore pile up as many of you apiece as we can get-this is what too many of you seem to forget. "Coleridge may be said to be both a classic and a romantic, but then, so may Dryden, depending on your point of view... In some respects, this statement is unquestionable true, but in others..." On through the night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...offenders, but practically nobody pays any attention-not even the police. Somehow, Camardella feels, the exuberant Brazilians will have to realize that machinery does not have to sound powerful to satisfy its users. A little travel might help accomplish this goal. Says Photographer Valentin: "I'll never forget the first time I went to Miami. All those cars! The hustle! And almost no noise! For a while there, I really thought there was something wrong with my ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Noise: The Exuberant Beetles of Brazil | 9/12/1969 | See Source »

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