Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walter Mondale's aura of invincibility was such that almost everybody forgot about New Hampshire's quirky politics and unusual demographics. The polls contained no hint of an upset in the making: only a week before the primary, an ABC-Washington Post poll showed Mondale first with 37% and Gary Hart third (behind John Glenn) with 13%. The Mondale campaign serenely cruised about the state in long motorcades, with scores of reporters and television crews in tow. Hart bounced around in vans, with few reporters and fewer TV cameras in sight. As he wandered into coffee shops, Hart...
...your Essay "Journalese as a Tongue," the language used by [Feb. 6], you apparently forgot to mention "marathon bargaining session." Not one labor dispute is ever settled without such a meeting, which, of course, "narrowly averts a walkout...
...watch the HPT producers humiliate a smiling celebrity with Man of the Year honors. (Sean Connery didn't lose his cool when Gail Aidinoff crowned him with a curly black wig and two busty men kissed his cheeks, and he didn't crack up when co-producer Tom Strickler forgot what movies he had been in. The audience did, but that's the kind of thing people go to live presentations...
...Depression years and their aftermath, we forgot that first, founding lesson of the American Republic: that without proper restraints, Government the servant becomes quickly Government the master. I call it an American lesson, but actually it's much older: Cicero believed that the budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced. . . Yet even as the '50s and '60s went by, and more Americans shared my concern, Government grew like Topsy. In the '70s, federal spending tripled, taxes doubled and the national debt reached al most a trillion dollars...
Enen then, the Crimson forgot which team was supposed to win, and refused to roll over and submit to Duke's intimidating pressure. At the end of the game's first 20 minutes, Harvard exited the floor encouraged by Ferry's two free throws the junior guard had 20 points on the night and Carrabino's 22-foot rainbow, which cut the Blue Devil's halftime lead...