Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protecting the elderly, giving directions to lost people, and excorting citizens out of potentially dangerous encounters with muggers. Occasionally, they might even catch a purse-snatcher or burglar in the act. As time passed, the Angels made no significant dent in crime rates, but they did show the almost-forgotten power of citizens who care about each other. The Angels were a modern, urban version of the Boy Scouts who helped little old ladies through subways instead of across the street...
Money and meanness. Those are the factors for which this year's election is likely to be remembered, long after calculations about shifts in party power and legislative policy are forgotten. Well, anyway, until 1984, when, it is altogether too possible, candidates' spending will spin still further into the stratosphere and their ads will become yet more venomous...
...feel with the U.S. is something that is really a personal experience, and this is true for many in my generation. After the war, when I was a student of about 16 or 17, when we were half starved, it was the Americans who helped us. We have forgotten neither the Hoover assistance nor the CARE parcels...
...restraint was now gone Their faces were flushed, and the niceties of diplomatic language and protocol were stopped away. They had almost forgotten I was there, and there was nothing to distract me from recording this fascinating debate...
They were called "roarbacks," those last-minute campaign charges of doubtful validity and howling viciousness that were so common in 19th century American politics. In this more enlightened age of television and marketing, the term has been forgotten, but the tactic endures. Indeed, negative political advertising seems to be growing, and getting meaner, in the closing weeks of this year's campaign...