Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Still vocally confident at week's end, Perón set out from Buenos Aires for Rosario, Argentina's second largest city, got workers' cheers, was slightly jolted when his dining car jumped the tracks. He also appealed abroad for friendship. He conveniently forgot that his street fighters still shouted against "Yankee imperialism," that last fortnight he had himself made an unsupported charge that the U.S. Embassy was aiding arms shipments to his opponents. Now Perón called for "mutual comprehension" between Argentina and the U.S., said he hoped for U.S. capital because "it would bring...
...Propulsion. In Los Angeles, suicide-bent Ronald Neff turned on the gas, forgot to douse the water-heater pilot, blasted himself safely out the window...
Eighteen years later, when Switzerland had been invaded by the French, and hundreds of half-starved, ignorant, homeless children roamed the country, Pestalozzi gathered together as many as he could, and started an orphan school in Stans. "We wept and smiled together," he wrote. "They forgot the world . . . and only knew they were with me and I with them. ... I sought less to teach [them] to spell, read and write than to make use of these exercises for the purpose of giving their minds as full and as varied a development as possible." In the end he succeeded. Talleyrand...
Slowly, Ryder, now a successful artist, forgot the family at Brideshead. When the Depression blanketed England, Ryder became the last consolation of Britain's dying aristocracy. "I was called to all parts of the country to make portraits of houses that were soon to be deserted or debased; indeed, my arrival seemed often to be only a few paces ahead of the auctioneers, a presage of doom...
...councilors listened, forgot their political differences, joined ranks (from Communists to Popular Republicans) behind the voice of conscience, pointing out the long-neglected connection between private and public morals. Police Prefect Charles Luizet announced that the brothels would be closed within three months. The Council earnestly applauded...