Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joked with my father about getting mail[meant for Judge Bork], but we agreed that it washighly improbable," said the Lowell Houseresident. He said he had thought about thepossibility of receiving letters intended for "theother guy" 10 years ago, during Nixon'spresidency, but had forgotten about theconservative politician until this summer...
...tickets for their children. Only time will allay the confusion of new undergraduates who were told they should start hanging out with people who didn't go to Exeter. And, ultimately, only time can redeem the reputation of Derek Bok, a man who, for all appearances, seems to have forgotten over which university he presides...
...Aborigines greeted the first fleet of British ships that ferried white convicts to colonize Australia in January 1788. The Europeans ignored the yells, and the Aborigines have suffered from negligence ever since. Now comprising only 1% of Australia's population of 16 million, the Aborigines have become a forgotten and impoverished minority, relegated to the squalid fringes of rural towns and shabby city suburbs of a continent that once was theirs alone. "We are a captive people," says Paul Coe, an Aboriginal leader. "We are a managed people...
None of them could have dreamed that Jesse Jackson, candidate for President of the U.S., would, 50 years later, set up his Iowa headquarters on that forgotten corner. What strange force brought a man of world renown, a fire- breathing latter-day populist, to that dot of earth, that little corner of a small town that was never witness to anything more grand than a merry-go- round, a high school band concert and an ice-cream social...
With letter writing a forgotten art, diaries passe and taping in disfavor, future historians may literally be at a loss for words...