Word: recollective
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...shrewd ones, however, an end to war would spell a beginning of something else. The Junkers, the big industrialists and the professional soldiers are schooled in the belief that unconditional surrender need not be catastrophic-unless imposed by the Russians. Once before, they might recollect, a timely yielding had proved surmountable. They would reason that a new Versailles dictated by Western powers would scarcely rob them of their skills and the ability eventually to use them again...
...became the mother of a 7-lb. girl. The child's name was undisclosed. "I think Eunice wants to name it after my nephew's boy," Charlie told a visiting reporter and photographer. Asked what the boy's name was, Charlie said: "I can't recollect." "See yan branch," he said, pointing with his squirrel rifle, "well, that's the dividing line. No photographers can cross it." The newsmen went away...
...first time, as far as anybody could recollect, Judge Lynch had been overruled...
Japan's Army has had such an extended jamboree on the vast continent of China that it has forgotten how insular the little homeland is. Last week, after six sudden setbacks, Japan's puzzled militarists were forced to recollect...
When the Vagabond was a little shaver of five, he used to climb on his father's knee after supper and demand a story. Now, these many years later, the first ones he can recollect being told concerned a man who went to a strange country of Little Men. Or sometimes he went to a land of Big People. The man's adventures were all very fascinating and exciting...