Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sometimes it offers a concise pictorial report as well as a message. Shahn learned to draw the hard way; when he was growing up in Brooklyn, the local toughs used to make him draw chalk portraits of their favorite athletes on the sidewalk. Accuracy was imperative, and Shahn never forgot the lesson. Although Shahn's use of color has gradually become so arbitrary as to verge on artiness, his draftsmanship is often realistic and clear...
...these jubilant words a Minnesota farmer greeted the news early last week that the price of September corn had reached $2.65½ a bu. on Chicago's Board of Trade, a new alltime high. Wheat at $2.80 was also close to a record price. But what he forgot was that prices bid up by speculators must come down-when the speculators get frightened...
...have you know no man lives here," she informal the intruder as he retreated in disorder, Sheepish in his confused apology, he forgot to take anything with him including his fellow celebrant who turned out to be fictitious...
Anti-Semitism was still alive in Germany. In Berlin last week a German woman, sentenced to six months in jail for offending a Jewish family living in her house, shouted at her accusers in court: "What a shame they forgot to burn you in the concentration camp...
...Coventry last week, Gracie swaggered onstage before 1,000 General Electric employees, promptly pitched into a nostalgic Noel Coward medley and an Afrikaans song in "Lancashire French." Then she reverted to her old rough & tumble with a comic song called He Forgot to Come Back, wherein she quakingly called for "Hennerry." Only her celebrated cartwheels had been dropped from the prewar formula...