Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many prized vessels have been found, dust-covered and forgotten, in old barns and boathouses. Scherb, for example, paid $750 for a 1948 Chris-Craft Racing Runabout that had become landlocked inside a remodeled tavern. (The sellers used the money to pay for a new door to the bar.) Today, in pristine condition, the Chris-Craft is worth $20,000. The competition to find such abandoned treasures is becoming increasingly fierce, since the number of still undiscovered boats is estimated to be only...
...delegates haven't forgotten Chappaquiddick. The Massachusetts delgation, following Malone's address, began chanting "Where was Ted?" in mocking reference to Kennedy's taunting of the Republican nominee, "Where was George...
MOST people have forgotten the Turks and their empire. They may vaguley remember their presence in several Shakespeare plays or how they treated the Armenians at the turn of the century. They might even remember that Britain fought the Crimean War with the Turks and aginst the Russians to safeguard European shipping rights in the Bosphorous--if they remember the Cirmean War. But most have probably forgotten that, however free Greece may have been in antiquity, it suffered many years under the Ottoman yoke...
...Nixon entered the White House, he would become the target of the press, the Justice Department and ultimately the legal world for what were perceived to be ethical breaches. If before he was the torchbearer of liberalism under siege, after the second round of controversy, Fortas was simply forgotten or remembered as an embarrassment...
...growing celebrity, not to mention the high-style hairdos and drop-dead outfits, often seems gratingly at odds with her down-to-earth TV image. And , there are Chicagoans who say that Oprah has forgotten her roots, that success has gone to her head. But she seems pleasantly unaffected by fame. Her conversation is a mix of calm self-assurance (one rarely hears an "uh" in Oprah's speech), erupting high spirits and down-home sass. She talks amiably to the fans who constantly recognize her on the street, and personally says goodbye to each member of the studio audience...