Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just in case he should be forgotten, it was ordered that a biography and the writings of Andrei Zhdanov be promptly published...
Ferment. The nation had half forgotten the kind of convulsions with which it had been seized in the years after World War I. The U.S. had not only been hellbent to shake off the past, but full of a kind of callow hunger for sensation. The flapper who bobbed her hair, bound her breasts and wore knee-length skirts was almost duty-bound to get "blotto" by drinking gin from hip flasks. "I want to live my own life," cried the '20's movie heroine, and millions tried to imitate her. Literature was full of ferment, religion...
unconscious. The submerged part of the mind that contains urges, feelings and drives forgotten or ignored by the conscious part of the mind...
...dismay and disbelief of civic-proud Los Angelenos, the Los Angeles Times reported that hordes of rats swarmed nightly over palm-fringed Pershing Square in the midst of downtown Los Angeles. The rats, said the Times, climbed down out of the trees to feed on popcorn and nuts forgotten by the pigeons in the daytime, drank from the fountain, scampered over discarded newspapers...
...crotchety. After taking his M.D., Freud "specialized in structural diseases of the nervous system. He was fascinated by patients who had "pains," but no structural disorders-i.e., neurotics. The key problem with a neurotic patient, he decided, was to get him to "remember" things that had been "forgotten"-not forgotten in the usual sense, but "repressed"' because they were too painful or disagreeable to remember...