Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...competing candidates. After the voter marked his ballot and placed it in a transparent Lucite box (to forestall accusations of ballot-box stuffing), his ID card was stamped and his finger dipped in indelible ink. AL told, more than 180,000 people monitored the process. The commissioners forgot just three things: the F.M.L.N. guerrillas, the dislocation produced by more than four years of civil war, and the lack of sophistication of most Salvadoran voters...
...ready to make a commitment." Communicate. To speak earnestly about various aspects of the commitment. When he breaks off the argument about the dog and starts silently but noisily washing the dishes, he is "not communicating." Depersonalized. A term of dislike, as in "You have become depersonalized. You forgot my birthday." Emotional bottom line. Latest judgment on how the commitment is faring. Current use of a financial term for an emotional relationship may be a symptom of national economic malaise or simply a sign that more accountants are falling in love. Fidelity. Term of praise for obeying the commitment. Insensitive...
...close friends gathered round when the awful impact of Edwin Thomas' $15,000 loan to Ursula Meese began to sink in. "I blew it," Ed Meese kept repeating in a low tone. "I completely forgot about it." At one point, when her husband left the room to make a phone call, Ursula broke down and wept. Never before had the friends seen Ursula Meese cry. "I've done this to him," she sobbed, "and he doesn't deserve...
Though he had good friends among his peers, could write better poems than his classmates, and could state, swim and canoe at least as well as any one of them, he was afraid to speak to girls he liked, forgot his speech in a debate, and failed to make the track team. At parties he felt ill at ease. The first signs of hypochondria seem to have appeared during his adolescence...
...though they never vowed to "win it" for John Harnice their teammate who had drowned several months before the members of the Crimson squad never forgot...