Word: oblivion
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...persecute. These cowardly and poorly-rhymed attacks on our person by this word starved urchin of the Missouri wastelands are designed only to throw the spotlight of ridicule upon us, thus freeing the richly deserving J. Bernard Mathes, whose unshaven face grins stupidly before us daily, of that oblivion. Julian is so cheap, incidentally, he makes out P.V.'s for his subway fare--when he doesn't crawl under the rail...
...from his pep talks it seemed clear that the U.S. had made up its mind to give genuine support to the Generalissimo's Government. The Generalissimo, in turn, had heartened his American friends with a quiet profession: "If I die a dictator, I shall go down to oblivion as all other dictators have gone. But if before I die I manage to give back power to the people, I shall be remembered in every Chinese home...
Double enjoyment was the keynote as a weed-shortage frustrate, whose name must forever remain buried in oblivion and the records of the Cambridge Fire Department, blossomed forth in Lowell House Saturday night with an ingenious scheme for getting more smoke out of a smoke...
...realize that we've passed the third anniversary of Pearl Harbor. ... I lost my time sense, I think, about the time we rounded the north turn of the training cycle in the California-Arizona desert. There have been a good many hours when, hanging between wakefulness and oblivion, I have allowed myself to consider the rest of my life. These are some of the tentative conclusions I have reached...
...recent reconstruction of the State Department, the name of Sumner Welles was not mentioned. In fighting for truth and honesty in international relations he seems to have brought upon himself oblivion. Is this to be the fate of all such...