Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bitter Korean tea in General Li Bum Suk's second-floor office. Looking alertly at us through his black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...
...With him, said Hall, was his blues-singing wife, Frances Langford. The publicity was wonderful. Next day it was not so wonderful. Pressed for details, Hall finally confessed that neither he nor his wife had been in the plane at the time. Said he: "I wish this would be forgotten. Too much fuss has been made...
...time you are likely to run into a foul little film called "Child of Divorce," whose buck-toothed protagonist is the most trenchant argument yet for birth control. But though the main feature involves another set of buck teeth, this time attached to Miss Tierney, they are fairly easily forgotten in the whimsical flow of this Anglicized Twentieth Century Fox picture...
Samuel Jackson Snead had never forgotten his three most horrible minutes of golf, at Philadelphia's swanky Spring Mill course eight years ago. On the final hole, with golf's greatest prize-the U.S. Open -all but won, Sammy swung at the ball. There was a cloud of sand but he had missed the ball; it rolled feebly to the edge of a sand trap. Sammy swung again. The ball plunked to the edge of a trap on the opposite side of the green. To cap his rout, he missed a one-foot putt...
When he got home (he is still in the A.A.F., stationed in Florida) he expected that the I.O.U.s might be quickly forgotten. They weren't: in a short time Greening had his money, and arranged with a printer to publish a book of his watercolors. By last week all 5,000 books had reached the subscribers, and there were already 1,000 requests for more. Colonel Greening's careful watercolors were not first-rate art, but for the graduating class of Stalag Luft I they made a historic yearbook. And to men who had survived air combat...