Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken a lot of doing. Neither President Harry Truman nor the new Air Force had forgiven or forgotten Radford's angry last-ditch opposition to unification of the armed services, which he carried on even after the Navy had agreed to the merger. Defense Secretary Forrestal and Navy Secretary Sullivan had trooped to the White House to plead Radford's case, Harry Truman had stubbornly put them...
...show Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government that we are interested," settled for $18 million in the final version (see The Congress). The State Department had already admitted that the U.S. is prepared to grant export licenses to China for U.S.-made arms and ammunition.*For almost-forgotten China, it was not much. But it was a start...
...first picture auction, a Holbein went for ?3 18s. and a Titian for two guineas. But Christie's friends, Painters Reynolds and Gainsborough, taught him the value of "stained rags"; Christie's descendants and their successors (the last Christie in the firm died in 1889) have never forgotten the lessons. Paintings now comprise the bulk of their sales. In 1876 Gainsborough's Duchess of Devonshire was auctioned for 10,000 guineas, then a record price. For almost a century each successive Christie sale was described as "the greatest this country has ever seen." Christie's privately...
Oregon, not to be forgotten, boasts of Mount Hood with a mile-long chair lift, several rope tows, the Golden Rose tournament, and countless choice fast open slopes. Also in Oregon is Crater Lake, largely for natives and those who seek fresh, unpacked snow...
Song-&-Glance Man Maurice Chevalier, who made a pile in Hollywood in 1935, returned to the scene of his triumph and was promptly buttonholed by the state tax collector. Chevalier, who declared he had forgotten all about it, sighed, handed over the delinquency...