Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While reading the Man of the Half-Century nominations . . . I've noticed that no one has mentioned perhaps the most important man of this century if not of the next. I am referring, of course, to oft-forgotten Uncle...
...Schnaare, had long since given up trying to make a living out of it and had gotten a job upriver at Cairo (rhymes with faro). But it was, nevertheless, a great institution in America-a club and forum, and a source for almost anything America's housewives had forgotten to pick up in the city stores. Mrs. Schnaare was glad to keep it open a few hours every day just as a community service...
Ordinarily the incident might have been forgotten, but to correspondents becalmed at Key West, it seemed like a ruffling little breeze of news. Next day the nation's press (attributing its information to unnamed presidential "intimates" ) breathlessly reported that Harry Truman had spotted Ike as the Republican to beat in 1952. Considering Ike's series of anti-Fair Deal speeches (TIME, Dec. 12-19), the assumption did not seem too farfetched...
...responded gracefully to his welcomers. "For many years," he said, "the Soviet people and the Soviet government have repeatedly given aid to the cause of the liberation of the Chinese people. These acts of friendship . . . will never be forgotten . . The most important tasks are the strengthening of the [Communist] front of peace throughout the world . . . the strengthening of good neighborly relations between . . . China and the Soviet Union...
...Forgotten Royalty. During the next 200 years, 37 members of the royal family were laid to rest there in hermetically sealed sarcophagi, and the tombs were untouched until the Napoleonic invasion of 1808, when French troops drove out the nuns and turned the cloister into a barracks. Later, when Wellington's troops in turn drove out the French, the nuns returned to their desecrated convent to find a ghastly spectacle: tombs torn open, their occupants (whose bodies the nuns regarded as sacred) sitting up or falling out haphazardly, valuables gone. The shocked nuns hastily replaced the bodies as best...