Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...failed. He noted that many foreign newspapers expressed surprise at the ignorance of the Russian people concerning the U.N. Report on Hungary. "But it takes more than this sort of festival to cover up the tragedy of Hungary," Abrams said in the Mirror. "People aren't going to forget that for a long time. And because of the Youth Festival, more of the Russians know about it now, as well as other things their own papers won't give them."The U.S. Delegates arriving...
...MILESTONES) and James Hulbert. In all, Bergen piled up 108 looseleaf notebooks in his children's playroom. As the project grew, he began to have nightmares about a fire destroying his files. "If the house caught fire while I was out," he chuckles, "my wife was instructed to forget the kids and start throwing the books out the window." Despite all his research, Evans willingly admits that the final defense of his pragmatic approach to problems raised by the English language is his own judgment. Says he: "I have a pretty strong ear and I have confidence...
...corrupt character" emerges like a combination of half a dozen case histories in abnormal psychology. He disliked making love to women, avoided his mother to the point of forging foreign stamps to make her believe he was living abroad. He was morbidly dependent on his friends' company. "Forget your wretched teeth." he wrote to a friend who wanted to go to see a dentist. "The soul is better than teeth...
...architecture magazine called Dornus (Latin for home), which has an international circulation of 40,000. "Father's enthusiasm is contagious," his daughter Letitia says, explaining how it all gets done. "If he is thinking of a new water basin, not one of us could just sit down and forget water basins. You just have to set your mind to what father is thinking." This in itself is a formidable assignment, for Ponti generates ideas from the moment he bounds out of bed at 6 a.m. and shouts for his usual breakfast of smoked beef and mineral water...
...with $91 of the $100 he had stolen in a candy store by brandishing a pistol and threatening, "Give me every cent in that register or I'll blow your head off," he offered a conditional surrender: "It was all a joke, fellows. I'm willing to forget...