Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Copeland since I moved from Dallas at the age of ten, and I was secretly sure that Cappi would be waiting there in Smith along with Dave's ex-Iowan classmate. In fact I was sure that Dave's date was Cappi. Sure, maybe she changed her name and forgot that she'd ever known me, but under my magic gaze the mists would part, Dave would step aside, and Cappi would step into my arms, lithe and beautiful. Nevertheless, I couldn't take chances, couldn't reveal my hopes--had to let Dave be harrassed...
Caught up in the conviction of the moment, I almost forgot my own fear of feeling silly, of wasting my time. Feminism, I reasoned, had to be more to me than just theory read in course texts and discussed in section. Marching for a cause was a way for me to put my belief into action. I would, I hoped, feel the power that one speaker had conveyed when she shouted into the mike, "We are strong people, and we are in control of our lives...
...They just played better than we did," Harvard Coach Dave Fish said. "We're not healthy. But Columbia is a better team anyway. We did a lot of losing during spring break. I just think we played tough competition, and we forgot...
...long ago, Chuck never gave a thought to his financial security. Then came the day when, as Chuck describes it, "I wrote out a check for $1000 to my coke dealer, but I forgot to draw a line after the words 'One thousand,' The slimeball just added the words 'million trillion dollars,' and overnight I was ruined...
Possibly thanks to McLain, only a few coaches have criticized the tournament drug-testing procedure inaugurated by the N.C.A.A. this year, a painstaking postgame process that forgot to allow for dehydrated athletes. Coach Norm Sloan of Florida, fearing passive contamination, packed up the whole team and fled a Syracuse Holiday Inn when one of the Gators thought he detected a wisp of marijuana smoke curling out of the room next door...