Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forget that Goldwater has now voted "no" on three recent major bills to reach the Senate: the civil rights bill, the trade expansion act, the test ban agreement. These bills could not have passed without staunch Republican backing. Mr. Goldwater is merely doing some wishful thinking when he claims to be in the mainstream of Republican thought...
...present might be concealed. Bob Taft didn't say stop social security-he said extend it to all elder citizens who are not now eligible. He didn't say quit the United Nations-he said make the United Nations work. He didn't say forget our cities-he said provide the housing which will make our cities livable. In fact, he was the father of our modern housing legislation...
...have one suit, an old one, but still a suit. I don't need a second one. I have worked. I have written poems . . . Building Communism doesn't only mean standing at a work bench or plowing the earth. There's also spiritual labor. Judge: Forget the big words...
...House Commerce Committee meeting last week, several critical Congressmen talked tough to Federal Trade Commission Chief Paul Rand Dixon. They wanted him to forget his plan to make cigarette manufacturers place poisonlike warning labels on their product. It was too late, replied Dixon, who then shocked everybody by disclosing that the order had already been written. Distributing copies to the Congressmen, he remarked somewhat sarcastically: We had our printers working all night in case you wanted one." The timing was surprising, and so was the harshness of the order. If the FTC got its way, the cigarette makers would have...
...hopeless attempts to recapture his youth end when he wakes up on the beach in a cold dawn, wearing a wet blanket and an Indian headdress, and surrounded by a ring, of torches, symbolically extinguished. Needless to say, he feels very old, tired, embarrassed, and drives off determined to forget the whole experience. Not a bad idea, since Crazy Desire is really just a compendium of childish whims...