Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon forget the scene of that army of police, massing silently in the night, and a photographer peering out the press room window and remarking with a thin smile: "It seems to me I read all about this somewhere before...
...bureau hand named Jack Mabley turned in an account of a traffic fatality, he was sent back across town-five miles by street car - to get the middle initial of a survivor. "Once you do that," says Mabley, today a columnist for Chicago's American, "you never forget again...
...Khan had been badly rattled by opposition attacks during the campaign. When he heard he had won, he cried, "Thank God! The country has been saved." In a nationwide broadcast, he took a conciliatory line. After thanking all who had worked for his election, he added, "I must not forget those who differed with me. They too have served the cause of democracy." As for Fatima Jinnah, "She fought the election according to her lights. I have no personal grudge, and I wish her well...
...Germans' great fear is that the world-particularly the U.S.-will forget about the tragedy of their sundered country. Politicians of every political stripe vie with one another in their clarion calls, and the message comes especially loud and clear in 1965, an election year...
There are those around Saigon who would like to forget. Only last week Ambassador Taylor challenged the accuracy of one of Beverly's stories in which she reported the gist of an off-record Taylor news conference from which she had been excluded. Taylor, said Beverly, had said that some of the generals who had taken over power in the Vietnamese government "border on being nuts." "The article," sniffed an official U.S. embassy release, "is apparently based on inaccurate leaks from a background session to which the Tribune's correspondent was not invited...