Word: forgotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humor in most of Plath's poetry--a humor that saves her poetry from becoming an obsessive mythology of self-hatred. A sense of playfulness is the crucial element lacking in much personal poetry as well as other contemporary poetry. And we are surely lost if the poets have forgotten how to play
...Largely forgotten amid the world's more pressing conflicts is the civil war in the central African nation of Chad. In the nine months since France sent 3,000 troops to back the government of President Hissene Habre against Libyan-supported rebels, the two sides have been largely deadlocked. But the fighting goes on: two weeks ago nine French paratroopers were killed on a road in northeastern Chad. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief James Wilde spent ten days with the Chad army, traveling by Land-Rover from the capital city of N'Djamena to Sahara outposts near the Libyan...
...those problems were largely forgotten as Challenger 's five-man crew stepped down the ramp from their cabin into the 42° desert morning. The focus was still on their historic achievements. Shuttle Mission 41-C had written a new and vital chapter in the use of the space vehicle and confirmed the ability of astronauts and sophisticated machinery to work in on-site weightlessness...
What a short memory Hussein has. Has he forgotten that in 1967 he attacked Israel despite Israel's pleas for Jordan to remain neutral? Had Hussein stayed out of the Six-Day War, the West Bank and part of Jerusalem would still be Jordan...
...even as his Herut Party was squabbling, the opposition Labor Party showed unity as it rallied behind Leader Shimon Peres. Before 1,000 party delegates, Peres' archrival Yitzhak Rabin declared, "The fifth President of the state of Israel and the fifth Prime Minister-if you've forgotten, that's me-recommends electing the fifth Defense Minister Shimon Peres as the eighth Prime Minister of the state of Israel." Although all those numbers may have sent heads reeling, other figures were sure to set pulses racing: according to the most recent poll, if elections were held...