Word: forgeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation with the jarring impact of a fear suddenly become fact. The comfortable feeling of U.S. monopoly was gone forever. The fact was too big and too brutally simple for quick digestion. What had been a threat for some time in the future, hard to visualize, easy to forget, had become a threat for today, to be lived with...
...Lortz points out that the church then seemed to be at the pinnacle of its strength. But, he writes, while "the facades were still standing," there was no longer "always life in the structures . . . Religious impotence was most unmistakable in the case of the higher clergy . . . Nor may we forget what a devastating effect such weaknesses . . . necessarily exert on the life of the whole community...
...held before next July. Devaluation of the pound (see INTERNATIONAL) settled it. The election would be held next spring, not this fall. As one Labor Minister said this week: "When you have to raise the price of bread, it is probably a good idea to give people time to forget...
Pods on the Stream. Almost since it was written, in 1824, this grim, mocking little book has lain like a corpse in the cellar of English literature; people forget it is there until some literary busybody begins nosing around, gets a staggering whiff, and cries for everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above...
...During the last 35 years our organization has been fighting for a free University for the people. . . . Today we need moral and material help from the free students of the world. To them we ask not to forget that facism which has cost so much blood is still alive in Spain...