Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Remember that Mexicans, generally, are warm, sympathetic and charming people. If a correspondent is willing to forget his own way of doing things and concede that in Mexico one must proceed in the Mexican way, he will find the average Mexican approachable, friendly, and lots of fun. The first sign that he understands how things go in Mexico comes when he decides that a watch is irksome to the wrist, puts it away and depends thereafter on brief glimpses of street clocks, which are almost invariably wrong...
...Siqueiros is a complete, modern man, eagerly welcoming each new development in science, mentally exploring its cultural possibilities. But when he goes out in his car he is likely to forget to put gas in it and can frequently be found sitting disconsolately by the roadside waiting for someone to rescue him. Mostly, his car works well - because Angélica drives. She pilots it skillfully through traffic while he sits beside her explaining the fundamental principles of a motor car, two or three new ideas for traffic control, how landscapes can best be painted as seen from the window...
...morning he had a sadder duty. Sitting in St. Paul's Cathedral, Lew Douglas heard the memorial service for the late Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, to thousands of wartime Britons, the shy, gaunt symbol of U.S. help, a man Britain will not forget...
...years," he told a reporter, "is the maximum punishment for such a thing. I know because I looked it up in our laws twelve years ago, before I started all this. But sir, I'm sure about one thing: if I die in jail they will just forget all about it. My paintings will become original Vermeers once more. I produced them not for money but for art's sake." The money was nothing to sneeze at, either. Though he declared himself bankrupt two years ago, Van Meegeren had made $2,800,000 with his crooked brush...
Even those of his students who disagreed with him ("We had to leave our souls stacked outside his door," said one) learned to respect and even love him. His absentmindedness was the talk of the campus. He was forever taking his little children out for walks, only to forget all about them and leave them abandoned in some shop or library. Once, after a day of bewildering discomfort, he found he had been wearing his one-piece suit of long underwear upside down...