Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Forget the Mayonnaise. To help dramatize the Negro's 1963 revolution, leaders of civil rights organizations seized upon Randolph's old idea, called upon sympathizers everywhere for a "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom." Representatives of different, often rival, organizations got together, fired out to state and local representatives volley after volley of handbooks, bulletins, press releases, charts, schedules, visceral warnings and soul-stirring exhortations. Said one broadside: "We march to redress old grievances and to help resolve an American crisis born of the twin evils of racism and deprivation." The march organizers listed the demands that...
...highlands, 400 farmers crowded the town hall to hear him, determined to base their decision to leave Kenya or to stay on what he had to tell them (in the past two years, 6,000 have left, but 60,000 remain). Kenyatta appealed to the whites to forgive and forget, to join hands with his three-month-old African government and prove that different racial groups can live harmoniously together...
...knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are? Come now," said the Lord of the Flies. "Get back to the others and we'll forget the whole thing...
...Verdun is taken, what a disaster!" warned France's President Raymond Poincaré. "If it is saved, how can we ever forget the price?" In the crudest ten months of World War I, Verdun was saved. But the price was so disastrous - half a million French and German dead - that it has never been forgotten by either nation...
...Girls, Bill Friedberg, is less interested in the terrain than in the kind of girls he wants for Harry - the mostly bikinied, unemployed actresses and models who are found in abundance on the beaches of Cannes, Juan-les-Pins and Monte Carlo. They should make most viewers forget about Harry...