Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Herman Ruth would have been a loser; Babe Ruth will never be forgotten...
...Almost forgotten amid the word games was the plight of the evicted and of the 8 million others in drought- and famine-plagued Ethiopia whose lives are hanging by a thread. The Ibnet episode highlighted the ways in which political issues have complicated and sometimes obscured a humanitarian problem. It also deepened the unease of Western governments and relief agencies faced with a leadership in Addis Ababa that accepts their aid while reviling their principles. "There is a growing awareness in the relief community of just how ruthless the Mengistu government is," said Chris Cartter of Boston-based Grassroots International...
...usual. President Francois Mitterrand, a former Resistance fighter, reviewed troops in a brief ceremony and placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier beneath the Arc de Triomphe. He also sent a message to the Soviet Union in which he said that "the French have not forgotten the sacrifices of the Soviet people" in the battle against fascism...
There are certain words that English ought to have but does not. One is a word for the opposite of memory. Oblivion is not quite it. Forgettery? That swampy region in the southland of the brain where everything we have forgotten now lies, overgrown with kudzu, something like an enormous automobile graveyard...
...hope they won't be much less smooth," says their coach, chuckling. He adds that he hasn't forgotten about third-seeded Brown-the other boat that's beaten the Crimson-and fourth-ranked Princeton-Harvard's first victim of the reason...