Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...File & Forget. In Worcester, Mass., brave Helen Pedone and Julie Carelli optimistically complained to police that their wallets had been stolen at the annual policemen's ball...
...their money on glum, gum-chewing Joe Wilman, 41, who was bowling man of the year in 1946 and went about his trade in very businesslike fashion. In Chicago's drafty Madison Street Armory last week, Andy and Joe staged a seesaw duel that made the bowling experts forget anything they had seen before...
...watching the screen," complained one bartender, "people forget what is the prime purpose of a bar, which is to drink." He had three solutions for that: 1) "An extra employee to rove through the crowd and remind people that their drink is getting low"; 2) "Fill the first row with fast Scotch drinkers, and push them slow beers to the back. However, that is too ideal to be practical, because you would be offending a beer drinker who could easily develop into something better"; 3) "Raise prices during television hours; most places...
...contest is an important step. But the editors' obvious fear of being called neurotic or esoteric, coupled with their desire to print trash on the assumption that it will appeal to the non-literary student, limits them to the banal and the unimaginative. They would do well to forget about drama and poetry issues, windy articles and superficial literary crusades ("Where is drama heading?") for the time being, and concentrate on putting out the best material they can buy, beg, borrow, or steal, judged completely on its intrinsic worth...
Police Chief John B. King forget one little item in his release concerning the 200 parking meters to be installed in the Cambridge area...