Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kissinger had long since gone, and the damage was limited--but the blast's impact was far from insignificant. The museum had closed its doors to the public 28 years earlier, and many of its treasures lay forgotten in its dusty storage rooms...
...Egypt was making peace overtures toward Israel. He was not quite ready to take that step at the moment, Saddam told his visitors; what really mattered in inter-Arab ties, he said, was not "an official formula" but what was in "our hearts and consciences." Translation: he has not forgotten that since the gulf war began in 1980, Egypt has sold Iran about $1 billion worth of arms, including large amounts of secondhand Soviet-made equipment...
...surrender. The attack was an attempt to force Turkey to acknowledge responsibility for the 1915 massacre of an estimated 1 million of its Armenian minority. Said an Armenian community leader in Toronto: "The 1915 genocide has been ignored by the whole world. The Armenian cause is a forgotten cause...
...warfare agents, left over from the Second World War, that turn up unexpectedly in Germany every so often. In the United States, we don't have to live with that kind of unpleasant surprise. However, despite the fact that our weapons are stockpiled chemicals as opposed to strewn and forgotten remnants of a war, safety precautions and detoxification procedures must be developed...
...when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene notes in an introduction, he was astonished: "It proved to be not two pages of outline but a complete short novel of about 30,000 words. What surprised and aggravated me most of all was that I found this forgotten story very readable...