Word: forgetting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Russian plans for an All-German Commission. So eager is British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to keep the talking going in Geneva so that he would not have to explain a breakoff to the House of Commons (before it adjourns July 30) that Lloyd persuaded his colleagues to forget their threats and return to the bargaining table...
When Massachusetts' Democratic Governor Foster Furcolo requested a chance to speak to General Electric workers at Lynn last month in defense of his embattled proposal to boost the state sales tax, they deluged him with 200 unfriendly questions, such as: "When are you going to forget your giveaway programs?" "Why don't you do something to stop the disgraceful, wasteful spending of the taxpayers' dollars...
...chatter it was easy to forget the one question that matters to every man: How do I myself feel about the picture? Shock and confusion would not be surprising reactions; they occur as naturally as before the coruscating words of John of Patmos: "I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God. and for the testimony which they held: And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
...most dangerous thing that can happen to old people who were once attractive is to forget that they no longer...
...President of Argentina was to have been overthrown at 7 a.m. on June 19. Distrustful anti-Peronista military men, who cannot forget that Arturo Frondizi took Peronista votes to get elected last year, were determined to oust him. The fact that he now espouses austere anti-Peronista economics made them the more doubtful; to the military that looked devious. The plotters underestimated Frondizi. Last week he was still in office with a strong new Cabinet, and most of the plotters were in hiding...