Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked back for her, she had vanished. Gus heard faint screams. Following the sound, he came to an open hole in a clump of weeds. The hole was only 14 inches across, and the pipe that lined it was rusted and corroded. Kathy had fallen into an abandoned and forgotten water well...
England, which had trouble in Spain during the Peninsular Wars and never seems to have forgotten it, has been strongly suggesting the country as a made-to-order bridgehead and military base on the continent, "secure behind the Pyreness." Many military men disagree. Air and naval installations on the Iberian Peninsula would be under constant short-range bombing attack and exceptionally tough to supply; the Pyrenees are a poor barrier against airborne invasion, and nowhere near as impregnable as the Spanish like to think. Spain is fundamentally an unattractive place from which to flight a European war. There...
...North Sea, Hamburg seems to wear the glittering smile of West Germany's new prosperity. The buildings are scrubbed; the rubble-cleared streets are thronged with businessmen bustling along on fashionable white-soled shoes (the soles are resourcefully cut from old Luftwaffe tires). But not forgotten is the event which Hamburg's people simply call "the catastrophe"-the week of concentrated Allied bombing, in the summer of 1943, which left the city with nearly as many dead as were killed in Britain by bombs and rockets during the entire war. Hamburg's great port is virtually paralyzed...
...retired. While McClure's degenerated into a snappy-stories magazine-and folded for good in 1933-McClure lived on at Manhattan's elegant, decaying Murray Hill Hotel (TIME, May 5, 1947). He spent long hours at the Union League Club writing a history of freedom and other forgotten books, and was almost forgotten himself. Last week, at 92, S. S. McClure died...
Lily Sammile is Lilith, the female demon of Jewish folklore, the first wife of Adam, who wanders the world caressing men with her gritty hand, kissing them with her dusty mouth, luring them to the forgotten cemetery shed, which is the Gatehouse of Hell...