Word: forgetful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think today demonstrated that we're still not good enough to forget about the Ivies," Army Coach Jim Young said. "I think they give us just as good a game as a Syracuse, Washington or Alabama. Of course, [the Ivy teams] are going to be the underdogs. But that doesn't mean they're going to lose the game...
...talk with TIME separately last week about the prospects for peace. Though they clearly remain divided on important issues, each man spoke without rancor of his enemy and acknowledged that a fight to the end is no longer feasible. "It's time to look for an agreement and forget about ((past)) accusations," said Cristiani. Villalobos, in turn, conceded that a prolonged war "no longer corresponds to the reality of the world. If a revolutionary asked me today what to do, I would say, 'Conspire to launch a short-term...
...least, so he said, and for two years he never let anyone forget it. He drove the little white Honda CRX, he confided, only because he did not want to risk denting his Maserati. He helped out in a research lab for a measly $100 a week, he said, only because his family had cut him off when he failed to go to Harvard. He would not speak French, he said, only because Americans had such atrocious accents. He was fond of showing pictures of family mansions clipped out of magazines. When going away for a few days he would...
...into a seat. For Josephine Baumann, 71, a retired cook with the face of Edith Bunker, the trip to Bally's Park Place on a recent Wednesday is a welcome -- and cheap -- respite from arthritis, television and the addicts and prostitutes on her midtown Manhattan block. "I even forget my name," she says. The trip actually costs nothing: in exchange for her $18 Gray Line ticket, the casino refunds $15 in coins plus a $5 coupon off on the next trip...
This is certainly ending with a whimper. Yet such a dying fall hardly saps the considerable strengths of Big Sugar, subtitled Seasons in the Cane Fields of Florida. Forget the comparative dangers of cutting sugarcane. Wonder instead why roughly 10,000 West Indian men, chiefly Jamaicans, come to South Florida each winter to do it. That is what Alec Wilkinson, a staff writer for The New Yorker, did when he came across this information in a 1984 newspaper story. Other questions aroused Wilkinson's interest as a reporter. Among them: Is it not odd that a major domestic cash crop...