Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the last six years, many a customer had become a prey to the demoralizing phobia that clerks would refuse to take his money unless he were polite. But last week, almost every big department store was doing its utmost to revive half-forgotten reputations for courtesy...
...them that he would again ask Congress to authorize universal military training. He was presented with a maroon tie, emblazoned with a Missouri mule leading a camel bearing three wise men. Ex-Haberdasher Truman promptly twisted the tie into a salesman's knot, observed: "I haven't forgotten...
...Calumet Farm's six-year-old gelding, Armed, had been outdistanced by six-year-old Stymie as the leading money winner of all time (TIME, July 28); but he was not forgotten. The Triangle Publications (Daily Racing Form, Morning Telegraph, etc.) named him 1947's Horse-of-the-Year. The voting: Armed 25, Assault 2, Stymie...
...last Kenneth came to the attention of John Amery, another British traitor, who was organizing a British Free Corps to fight the Russians. In time the boy enjoyed the distinction of being the only private in the British Free Corps (all the others were officers). Then he was forgotten...
...Leventhal is living alone in his Manhattan apartment while his wife helps her mother move to Charleston. In the barbaric heat of late August he is beset by a nearly forgotten old acquaintance, Kirby Allbee. Down & out, dirty, half drunk, Allbee turns up to jeer at Asa, "discussing" with him a guilt that is both preposterous and somehow plausible...