Word: forgot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least one young German corporal who was temporarily blinded by a retaliatory blast of British mustard gas never forgot the experience. "My eyes," wrote Adolf Hitler, "had turned into glowing coals; it had grown dark around me." Hitler's memory, coupled with larger fears of retaliation, may help explain why the Nazis never unleashed their newly developed nerve gases on the battlefield in World War II, though they were applied in the gas chambers of the concentration camps...
...Democrats, always on the cutting edge, consulted experts who assured them that a pastel-colored podium would be more pleasing to the eyes than red, white and blue. Somebody forgot to tell Atlanta business owners, however, who have covered the town with the traditional colors...
Schoolchildren in New York City are about to learn a happy lesson about thrift. Their benefactors are the students of a half-century ago who tucked away small change in savings accounts and then forgot about them. Their spare pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters have grown into a trust fund containing...
...years Syndicated Columnist Carl T. Rowan has been an advocate of strict gun control. But when roused from sleep last week by what he believed was an intruder at the bedroom window of his Washington home, Rowan forgot his own counsel. After calling the police, he loaded a handgun and went outside. Rowan says he came face to face with a "tall man who was smoking something that I was absolutely sure was marijuana." After the man ignored warnings and lunged toward him, says Rowan, he fired once, wounding the intruder in the wrist. Police identified the trespasser...
...George Bush forgot this golden rule last week. With Democratic candidates Michael S. Dukakis and Jesse Jackson ripping into the White House sleaze factor--namely, Ed Meese--Bush fired back by saying that Democrats worried about the Attorney General's ethics should also call for an investigation of Wright...