Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When we started playing, man, they forgot all about Viet Nam." It was Jazz Pianist Earl ("Fatha") Mines crooning as he and his cool, cool sextet finished up a six-week gig around Russia. After inviting them, the Soviet government did everything it could think of to mash the smash-even going so far as to cancel scheduled performances in Moscow and Leningrad. Hines and his boys found plenty of cats in the boondocks, playing to S.R.O. crowds. "Jazz is happiness," grinned Fatha. "I know the Russians don't have much to smile about, but after they heard...
...pastor got into the travel business almost by divine comedy. Eager to make a tour of Spain in 1949 but too poor to swing it, Krogager signed up 70 Jutlanders for the trip, went along, with expenses paid, as their guide. In Segovia, Krogager forgot the name of an inn where the group had contracted to eat dinner. He took the travelers to another place-only to be confronted at meal's end by the irate owner of the scheduled restaurant, who demanded payment for the uneaten meal. In the red by $150 as a result, Krogager decided...
Despite his systematic savagery, the slayer either miscounted or forgot the one victim-possibly because he had learned that eight girls lived in the house and did not realize that a ninth, Mary Ann Jordan, was spending the night. "While he was out of the room on one trip," Corazon recounted, "I rolled under the bunk bed clear against the wall. I stayed under the bed for hours and hours." Throughout the terror-filled night she lay frozen with fear, not knowing whether the murderer was still in the house or gone. At 5 a.m., an alarm clock went...
...Meek." "I want to thank," he said, "the lords and all the common market people who have treated me so well in England. I want to thank the President of the United States and the Louisville draft board, who let me out of my country." The only man Clay forgot to thank was Henry Cooper, the balding cockney greengrocer whose left hand made it all possible: the most widely watched heavyweight title fight in history...
...forgot two outstanding teachers at the University of Alaska: Dr. J. Meeker and Dr. W. Hollerbach...