Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knives hurled at his enemies, the Bona-partists and the bourgeoisie. Time has dulled their politics but not their bite. The French government's selection of them on view in Manhattan last week looked at first glance like enormously artful propaganda, but an onlooker circling the gallery could forget that they were propaganda, forget that they were art, and accept them as pictures of the real thing-life in Paris a century...
...paper that was "against people who push other people around." But PM was never quite sure what it was for. It made no consistent attempt to cover the news. Instead, it rode off on so many crusades that it often seemed to forget what the crusading was about. From shrill liberalism it had wandered into the pro-Russian camp-then had scurried out again and, recently, raised a horrified voice against Russia and also against its erstwhile hero, Henry Wallace. It had paid its way for only one year (1944-45). It had snooted advertising for six years, then found...
Monitoring is a strange thing--one of those subtle but inescapable facts of Harvard College life that you forget between terms but never quite escape. The happy undergraduate starts off each of his courses in the now semester with a peculiar eagerness in his heart, a positive joy in some cases. He runs along for a month wondering why he's enjoying his work so much more this term than last, when all of a sudden the great fact creeps...
Henry Ford II, speaking in Stockholm on the U.S.S.R.: "We do not want to do business with Russian-dominated countries." He later admitted that the Ford Motor Co. still owns a plant in one of the countries behind the curtain, and intends to liquidate it. He added vaguely: "I forget which country...
...life & times of Radio Songbird Jane Froman, 30, continued to read like a story with happy chapter endings. "I'll never forget him," she had said in 1943 of Copilot John Curtis Burn when he kept her from drowning in the Tagus River after the Lisbon Clipper crash that broke his back and left her crippled (TIME, March 8, 1943). Last week, 25 leg operations and a divorce (from ex-Radio Singer Don Ross) later, she announced that she would marry rugged, 33-year-old Flyer Burn. She would have to be on crutches for the ceremony, but Jane...