Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lepidoptera. Last week the mystery was cleared up. In a West Ham court, Colin William Wyatt, a handsome, 38-year-old, onetime Cambridge ski champion, confessed all. Why had he done it? While he was in Australia (with the Air Force), his marriage had gone on the rocks. To forget, he had plunged into a hobby he had pursued since he was a boy, and he had lifted the museums' rarities to add to his own collection of 40,000 butterflies. The judge let him off easy (a ?100 fine); he understood "the distraction of your mind" that...
...Bracy said no. When Kroger insisted, he quit. He retired to his hotel room. Since then, Kroger officials have refused to issue for comparison the sales, or pay, of the man who took over Bracy's job in Carbondale. Bracy was a subject Kroger would just as soon forget...
...been in the Navy during the war (and spent 36 hours on a raft after his ship was torpedoed). He had a good job in a Standard Oil Co. paraffin plant in Oakland. He scratched a note to his wife on the fender: "Don't forget I love...
...first glance Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman John Grain Kunkel (pronounced Koonkul) is a very ordinary looking fellow. It is almost impossible to imagine Congressman Kunkel wearing a burnoose, strumming a guitar by moonlight, or joining the Foreign Legion to forget Dorothy Lamour. He wears spectacles, which would probably keep him out, anyhow. Congressman Kunkel is 48, a bachelor, 6 ft. 1 in., has grey hair, is shy, wears quiet clothes, and looks as though he enjoys reading railroad timetables...
Cabinet ministers visiting Yen's headquarters in the dusty village of Tinghsien found that the people had learned not only to read, but to keep their village clean, grow bigger & better crops. Yen's rule: "While we aim to create a new society, we must not forget we are doing it with an old society...