Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caches. In Chillicothe, Mo., a nervous second-hand dealer looked up the car he'd sold six days before, opened the trunk, pulled out $2,000, explained to the new owner: "That was my bank-I forgot." Near Chicago, Ralph Dean wiggled his big toe while taking a bus ride, felt far too comfortable, frantically remembered the four $20 bills he was saving; cops got his money back from the cobbler who had put new heels on Dean's shoes...
...Dante condemns the lukewarm, those "miserable souls . . . whom infamy and honor both forgot," to wander in a no man's land beyond the outer circle of hell...
Once, as the frightful sound bellowed louder, White's fingers froze to the control valve. He forgot what he was doing, or why. So did all the others present. For five minutes they stood paralyzed until an outsider ran in and broke the clinch...
...valedictory press conference last week, Chen said he had been misunderstood. His monopoly system was a device for government revenue only. Besides, said Chen: "I never forgot private enterprise. I always intended to re-establish...
...Modern existentialism marks a philosophical decadence. Poetry, painting, music, all became decadent when they busied themselves with shadows, forgot nature as it is. That is what is happening to philosophy today unless...