Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustards (and George Earle) have been practically forgotten in Pennsylvania. Last week, however, the Austrian Government had bustards on its mind. The Socialists had passed a law nationalizing hunting in the province of Carinthia. Large estates were to be subdivided into small parcels for the season, and one huntsman assigned to each by the authorities. Everyone, said the Socialists, deserved a chance in these hard times to shoot himself a bustard or a buck...
...Marshall Plan. In the long run, it was not designed to send food to the Europeans, but tractors and other things which would permit Europeans to work harder and produce more. That is why the Marshall Plan had galvanized the hopes of a continent that had almost forgotten how to hope...
Oversight. In Honolulu, Light Heavyweight Richard Cunningham jauntily climbed through the ropes into the ring, briskly peeled off his robe, promptly climbed out again, presently reappeared, all set, wearing the trunks he had forgotten the first time...
...remainder, all local talent, will be living at home. Accounts of the Long-fellow lineup indicated that the commuter would no longer be Radcliffe's forgotten woman, despite the depressed ratio of six and a half Harvardians to every quarry to the Northwest...
...Forgotten Faces. Her crew were not seamen but romantics who invested ?100 apiece in the venture. Of the ten men in her forecastle when she left Plymouth and plunged into a night of gale, only one had ever been to sea before. Soon almost all were seasick. Skipper Seligman felt a gloomy awe at his own temerity. He and the first mate, Lars, had to shout in melodramatic alarm to rouse hands to shorten sail. After the two-day gale had blown out, "faces that we had almost forgotten appeared blinking...