Word: reminder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kirk said he is still soliciting American support in protesting the nuclear testing, but he admitted some discouragement. "How they [Americans] respond to this is their business," he said. "But I have tried to remind all the democratic countries who were in World War II of an agreement that no country would brush aside smaller countries by rule of force...
...questions of the scientists, "but our staff members will be able to field them." Imry says the scientists are "bursting with thoughts they want to communicate. Sometimes, when they get on the phone they talk for hours, literally, about some scientific point. No one has the heart to remind them that it's an expensive international call...
Mickey Mouse. Rick took his first permanent playing job early in 1970, when he joined an English folk-rock group called the Strawbs. He and his fellow berries did a lot of clowning around onstage, and he now wishes people would not remind him of that phase of his career. One of his antics used to be giving his small Hammond electric organ a push and then chasing it across the stage. One night he tripped over a wire and-lying helpless on the floor -watched the instrument plunge off the apron of the stage and go up in smoke...
...President of Sierra Leone's creation of a "Medal of the Mosquito" [May 21] because the pest kept the white man from permanently settling in his country prompts me to remind him that the mosquito quite happily infected white and black. It was the hated white man, however, who brought the cure for malaria to Sierra Leone and indeed to all of Africa. This cure was enjoyed by blacks as well...
...made but seemed to have half forgot ten. The drama of assimilation, of that prehensile eye clawing at the world's very guts, dissolved. He ran out of subjects and fell back as never before on stock dummies - troglodytic clowns and kidney-profiled women who now and then remind one that the man who painted them also made Guernica and Girl Before a Mirror...