Word: forgotten
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...prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure." As we all know, this led to the mass extermination of eastern European Jews, racial minorities, Jehovahs Witnesses and others who did not conform to the state's concept of justice. What is often forgotten, however, is that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers of the Nazi machine. Hitler in his own perverse way evidently saw connections between these groups and practiced the most extreme form of racism, anti-semitism...
...able to make much sense of it, but he could always see a diamond. "I was a daydreamer," he confesses. "When I'd step into the Little League batter's box, I'd think, 'I'm Pete Rose, I'm Al Kaline.' " For hitting two home runs in a forgotten spring-training game 15 years ago at Lakeland, Detroit's Hall of Fame rightfielder is Gooden's ideal still. "I just fell in love with him for the way he played that one game when I was six." Why? "He dominated...
Justifiably indignant, Piecyk filed charges and told a grand jury what had happened. The jury indicted the arrested pair, John Gotti and Frank Colletta, for assault and robbery. Soon, however, Piecyk was wishing he had just forgotten about the whole episode...
...IRONIC that the one man who behaves scrupulously is the one punished by the military's not-so-benevolent bureaucracy? Were it not for Geltz, this whole affair would have been conveniently forgotten, and the State Department's possible negligence would have gone unnoticed...
...neighbor in Lebanon, N.H. Last week Dean's obsession took a tragic turn. In an apparent murder- suicide pact with Caroline Hull, his lover and the widow of another vet, Dean killed himself, Hull and her three children. "We the veterans, widows and children of veterans are a forgotten group," said a suicide note. Coincidentally, a study just published by the New England Journal of Medicine reports that Viet Nam-era veterans are 86% more likely to commit suicide than nonveterans and 53% more likely to die in car crashes. "The casualties of forced military service," write the authors...