Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, college tends to put a four-year limit on the average sports fan's memory, so maybe people have forgotten the days when B.U. Harvard hockey games were life-and-death matters. To understand the hatred Crimson fans developed for their Common-wealth Avenue rivals, you have to realize it was usually life for B.U. and death for Harvard...
...hardly anything unfootnoted. The book has a five-page "Note on Sources" (largely accounts of how he traced various long-forgotten Johnson friends), a 34-page index and 62 absorbing pages of footnotes. In one, a page long, Caro documents an allegation that Johnson secretly controlled the "blind trust" he established to manage his financial holdings after he assumed the presidency in 1963. The citation also promises more on that subject "in the later volumes...
...reality that is routinely forgotten when people try to figure out the best places to live. That game goes on continually. In the 1970s the Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City put Portland, Ore., and Sacramento at the top of the heap, after a "quality of life" survey of 243 U.S. metropolitan areas, and Birmingham and Jersey City at the bottom. This year a book called Places Rated Almanac scored the "livability" of 277 U.S. urban areas; it nominated Atlanta and Washington and its environs as most livable, with two Massachusetts areas-Fitchburg-Leominster and Lawrence-Haverhill-bringing...
Though not as sad to he among the living there Along the avenues I saw the poor and dark-shinned waiting shadeless in the level heat and metallic air. They seemed forgotten people waiting for the time...
...Soviet objective had been achieved. But the plan was not without its weaknesses. No one had expected Amin's bodyguard to put up such ferocious resistance within the palace. Resistance was so stiff that Colonel Bayerenov stepped out of the door to call for reinforcements. He had forgotten about the orders to the troops outside and was shot...