Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some muscle left, the Socialist Force Ouvrère, France's second largest labor federation, called a one-day general strike, set it for a Friday. The Communist-run federation of labor (CGT) gleefully announced that it was going to strike, too, trumpeted that France would never forget its black Friday. As it turned out, strikebound Friday was at worst only a dull grey. According to the Ministry of Interior, the strike" was 100% effective in the northern and eastern coal mines, in the ports, in some metal industries. But a majority of France's union members openly...
...unsuccessful playwright on Broadway, he joined Warner Brothers as a scripter in 1936, piled up plenty of screen credits (They Won't Forget, Dust Be My Destiny, Edge of Darkness) but not much satisfaction. In 1946 he branched out as a writer-director (Johnny 0'Clock), then tried just directing (Body and Soul). Next, having set up Robert Rossen Productions through a financing-distributing deal with Columbia, he became a producer (The Undercover Man). His latest film is his first crack at writing, producing and directing all at once...
...with all my heart," he formally wrote her, "definitely to let me know your whole mind as to the love between us ... necessity compels me to plague you for a reply." He was ready to be Anne's alone, "casting off all others." Though he could never forget that he was King, and usually wrote with royal restraint, sometimes, during separations, he wrote her as warmly as any other 16th Century swain, e.g., ". . . Wishing myself (especially of an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty duckies I trust shortly to kiss . . ." The real trouble with Henry...
...good. Actually, it is hard for overanxious people to win, no matter what they do: those who practice rigid self-control in normal times are likely to break down in a crisis. However, Drs. Ruesch and Prestwood believe that people "who in daily life . . . might miss their streetcars or forget their umbrellas . . . tend to tolerate their anxiety in emergency situations much better," because they have discharged their anxiety little by little...
Admittedly, this is not the case for all students, but it is what happens to a great majority of concentrators in fields where knowledge of a foreign language is unnecessary for undergraduates. They haven't the slightest interest in learning a language and forget most of it immediately after they get a grade of 594 or better on the examination...