Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's vacation hunger, the summer of 1946 would be remembered for more than roadside photographs. In Manhattan and many a big city the half-forgotten chatter of rivet guns sounded once more from the bare girders of new buildings. Crops were making a comeback; in Iowa the corn was pushing up 'way ahead of last year...
...Portuguese retainer was trying to encourage a kitchen fire with damp wood when the little family arrived. The children goggled at the medieval stove, whimpered and wept. (Maria had forgotten her pet poodle and a friend in Lisbon had given her a strange setter; Mamma had forgotten her passport, but that had been taken care of, too.) There was no central heating or electricity-Bella Vista hadn't been occupied for 100 years, save for a brief stay in 1942 by Dom Duarte, pretender of the House of Braganza. At nightfall, kerosene lamps cast shadows of the spindly Empire...
Several of the recent allegations of the Lowell House Committee in its letter to the Student Council Food Relief Committee seemed ill-advised. They had apparently forgotten that the foremost issue has been that underfed Europeans need sustenance and that it is worth some sacrifice on the part of better-nourished Americans to supply relief. Besides being unsound economically in supposing that one can have his cake and send it to Europe too, the position of the Lowell House Committee leaves room for doubts about its awareness of the food crisis...
...forgotten and the soldier slighted...
Bottoms Up. In Buffalo, George and Allen Filsinger took four months to build a boat, launched it, hoisted sail, promptly capsized. They had forgotten the keel...