Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While voicing U.S. indignation at what he called "this outrage" by the Communists, Johnson carefully avoided any sound of saber rattling. "Our response for the present," he said, "will be limited and fitting. We Americans know, although others appear to forget, the risks of spreading conflict. We still seek no wider...
...believe we have accomplished that." President Johnson pointed out that "the Gulf of Tonkin may be distant, but none can be detached about what has happened there. Aggression-deliberate, willful and systematic aggression-has unmasked its face to the entire world. The world remembers, the world must never forget, that aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed...
Tshombe & Cha-Cha-Cha. That evening the radio crackled a message of triumph: "All Stanleyville is in the hands of the Popular Army. Do not forget: we are the lions and you are the goats." Next morning a program of recorded cha-cha-cha music was interrupted by a strident voice advertised as that of Emile Soumialot, president of the Chinese Communist-backed National Liberation Committee. "I am the new Lumumba," the voice ranted. "Just before he left us, Lumumba let it be known that someone stronger than he would come to complete his work. That...
...called Cave Man Camp. There, for two days last week, Barry Goldwater slipped gratefully into seclusion, surrounded by centuries-old redwoods, water-lily-carpeted ponds, and a covey of U.S. millionaires and influentials, Republican and Democratic, who like to strip to their skivvies, swig Scotch in the sun, and forget their troubles...
...only low point in the score is a tasteless lament for Harlem: "Don't Forget 127th Street," contains lyrics like "there's no slum like your own . . . the neighborhood is classy--we've got rats as big as Lassie . . . H is for the heroin they sell here. A is for the alleys where we play . . ."The audience loved it. There was even a loud round of applause just after a mention of the white man's wild ideas about the Negro's dancing ability. This, of course, was followed by an amazing display of dancing from the chorus. Such...