Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the West, especially the U.S., was thrown off balance by this assault. The West had forgotten what happens to wartime coalitions when victory removes the pressure that holds them together; it had forgotten (though Russia never ceased reminding it) how great was the economic, political and moral gulf between the two systems...
Doubting Thomas. In Philadelphia, Thomas Quigley, told that he had inherited $4,000 from a long-forgotten aunt, refused to go to Newark, N.J. to get it, said...
...Forgotten Man. "At first it wasn't so bad'" says Brougham, "because Hearst forgot he had a Seattle paper. I threw his editorials on the floor and ran local stuff. . . ." In 1929 Hearst remembered, and Brougham went back to sports-but at a bigger salary than his successor...
From Germany, and in the Army's custody, a couple of almost forgotten ex-newspapermen arrived in Washington, D.C. : for wartime broadcasts from Berlin, roly-poly Robert H. Best and hawklike Douglas Chandler were finally to be tried for treason...
Tired Business. The M.C., null Blanche, played straight man to Comic Pierre Cour. Cour, pince-nezed and Tat-tersall-vested, impersonated "Monsieur Albert," who poses in café society as a rich joyeux garçon-but fools nobody, because he has forgotten to remove his bombazine bookkeeper's sleeves. Monsieur Albert heckled guest stars, mispronounced their names-a bit of business that is just as tired in France...