Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peoples." Dumbarton Oaks had no preamble at all, scarcely a mention of right or justice. The new charter has a preamble which is loaded with principled phrases (see above). Perhaps cynics who scorned the affirmations of faith in tolerance, freedom, equality, hu man dignity and better standards of life forgot that whole economic and social programs had been based upon an equally vague phrase in the U.S. Constitution: "to promote the general welfare." The section on purposes and principles, greatly strengthened, declares one of the organization's purposes to be the promotion of human rights and fundamental freedoms...
...forests, the snowy, glacier-scarred bulk of Mount Rainier. When the plane landed at McChord Field, his old Senate friend, Washington's Governor Mon Wallgren, was waiting. Together they drove to the lawn-bordered red brick governor's mansion at Olympia. Then, for five days, Harry Truman forgot the cares of office...
After that, everybody forgot all about the cracle from the London School of Economics. But his original prediction turned out to be true, if not in quite the way Finer had expected. The Russians by-passed Breslau, and it didn't finally end its resistance until...
...shell fragment seriously injured LIFE Photographer W. Eugene Smith, just as he was shooting a final picture for a layout on "A Day with a Front-Line Soldier." Commented Smith, a veteran of 13 Pacific actions and 23 combat bombing missions, at a field hospital afterwards: "I forgot to duck, but I got a good picture of those...
...thing the News forgot to tell its readers: how Jimmy Walker felt about it. That skinny, glib, ingratiating Irishman, who at 63 still looks like an aging musi-comedy juvenile, has rung up many a useful dollar since he left the mayor's office in a hurry in 1932, just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph...