Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Feelings of suspicion and cynicism linger long after the many statistics are forgotten. Ironically, the editors seem to lament the lack of meaningful political debate in America, yet rely on mere numbers to make their points. Stalin once bragged that "one death is a tragedy, a million deaths a statistic." What does that make the 1159 statistics in the Harper's Index? The stuff of fun conversation, maybe, but also cause for alarm...
WHEN A wedding anniversary occurs The Wife always thinks that The Husband has forgotten about it. This makes her very mad and she won't talk to The Husband. She turns her head up and walks away whenever he speaks. Soon The Husband finds out from The Neighbor why The Wife is angry, so he goes out and buys her a Card With A Corny Saying and hides it. Then The Husband condescendingly pretends as if he still is not aware that it is his anniversary until the wife finally confronts him with the problem...
Tell you what, Bucknell. If you win, you get the lifetime supply of Haines underwear and the vacation to the Bahamas. If Columbia wins, its 3666-game losing streak goes up in smoke. Forgotten...
Many UC members seem to have forgotten that student tuition pays Bok's salary and that student representatives have every right to the administration's respect. They also seem to forget the successes of their counterparts at other schools. At George Washington University, for example, the student government recently extracted a guarantee that tuition would not increase more than 10 percent each year...
...German Democratic party. A politician, a spectacular orator, a radical and a doctor of economics, she was a major figure in the early 20th-century politics of Prussia, Poland and Czarist Russia. Yet since her murder by German army officials in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg has been largely forgotten. Until now, that...