Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Athens newspapers blared forth the story of "mass kidnaping," some foreigners were skeptical, at first. But a sensitive Greek nerve was touched. Greeks never forget that for centuries the armies and government of their conquerors, the Turks, had been manned by children of Christian families, caught young and trained for their jobs...
Last week 38 Biggleswade unionists went on strike against Wells and Winch, claimed they had cut deliveries to the brewery's 370 pubs by one-third. With three weeks still to go before Easter, Alf's sporting friend offered to pay off the bet and forget the whole business. But Alf, taking his turn on the picket line, turned the offer down cold. "After all," he said, and his fellow strikers agreed, "it's the principle of the thing. A man has a right to grow a beard any time he wants...
...student product. The reaction against this has reached its height in the last few decades in the wide curriculum and the elective system. It is now turning out a broad but superficial product whose principal skill is that of quick retentive memory and an ability to disgorge and forget a large number of calculated generalities interlarded with a few facts--and whose intellectual interest in any field of education is highly superficial or non-existent. In a small, well-integrated college this problem does not assume the importance that it does in a large heterogeneous group...
...Republic would not soon forget the Year of Henry Wallace. In his reign as editor (TIME, Jan. 5), the weekly had more than doubled its circulation to 100,000-and reportedly lost more than...
...Niemöller, pronounced in 1940 by a fellow theologian, Dr. Karl Earth of Switzerland, plucked a revealing thread of consistency from the pastor's contradictory career. The appraisal still seemed to fit the postwar cut of Niemöller's jib. Wrote Dr. Earth: "Do not forget that Niemöller has always been, and remains today, a good-a too good-German. ... He has never ceased to be a fervent German nationalist...