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Golda made much of her humble beginnings, and humility was a trait she often professed. In real life she rarely practiced it. "Nobody crosses Golda," a former aide once said. She never forgot a slight. Yet she was willing to listen to almost anybody who asked for an audience, even though her listening could be a form of stonewalling. At the end, the coffee cups empty, the ashtrays full, the air staled in the close room, Golda would show her interlocutors into the thin dawn light-red-eyed, hoarse, exasperated, exhausted, knowing themselves defeated by the unshakable conviction of this...
Some students so enjoyed the blackout that they forgot to switch the lights back on after the power returned at 12:14 a.m. "We're backward," said Loree L. Farrar '81, explaining why a group in North Houses's Holmes Living Room continued to sing carols by firelight...
...clads hope to at least better their 1976 showing and believe that having been to the nationals once before will help. "Two years ago we were just blown away by seeing all those guys we'd heard about before," Meyer said. "We just forgot what we were there to do," he added...
...balcony; and the following evening when he drove in an open sedan to Rome's Gemelli Clinic to visit a friend, Bishop Andre-Marie Deskur, who was recovering from a heart attack. He made some remarks to the crowd at the hospital, but when he was finished he forgot to impart the apostolic blessing; an escorting prelate had to remind him to do it. At that point, John Paul II gave another glimpse of the warmth and humanity that helped win him the election. His face crinkling in a smile, he said, "I guess even a Pope has to learn...
...book. The Ellen Jamesians are women who have cut out their tongues in order to remember the case of Ellen James. Ellen James was an 11-year-old girl who was raped; her rapists then cut out her tongue to prevent her from describing them. What they of course forgot was that Ellen James could write. She wrote descriptions of her assailants, and they were caught. Later she comes to live with Garp, and develops into something of a real writer. But she doesn't care much about the Ellen Jamesians; imagine, cutting out your own tongue...