Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was needed was to get the politicians to shake hands and forget the past. Simple as it sounded, this seemed to be more than the Congo's quarreling politicians could manage...
...despite all the warnings, there are still a few hundred unfortunate run-ins each year with the bears that roam the parks. Animal lovers simply do not believe that it is dangerous to feed the bears, often forget that leaving food or candy in a tent is an outright invitation to any beast within sniffing distance. Trouble is, they look so cute, and they seem to be smiling a happy welcome to visitors-but too few campers realize that a bear hardly ever smiles: he just looks that way all the time, even when he is rummaging through a garbage...
...hits and was a big reason for his team's surge into a three-way American League battle for first place. For a superb fielder who was always kidded as a patsy at the plate (New York Yankee Slugger Mickey Mantle used to taunt him, "Don't forget your glove"), it was quite a performance...
...decisive vote -as he did on last week's 5-to-4 decisions curbing the Communists-is the newest Justice, Potter Stewart, 46. Says one of Washington's top trial lawyers: "You go up to argue before the court now, and you just talk to Stewart. You forget about the other Justices...
High Colombian government officials are full of public praise for President Kennedy's Peace Corps, and private misgivings that the corps organizers may forget to explore all the angles. Said one: "I think that after your government gives the girls and boys an examination, we Colombians should give them another. The most important question for a norteamericano going into the backlands is: 'Are you a Roman Catholic?' In our rural society, the village priest commands both the body and soul of the peasants. I'm afraid for non-Catholics, however noble the U.S.'s purpose...