Word: forgottenness
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...About three or four days before the election, the reports were beginning to get very positive, upbeat; then along comes the Kennebunkport incident with John Newcombe. I stayed awake all night and the next day. Barbara and I had totally forgotten about it. Calvin, the police officer, came to our house and said, ?George, I got to take you in.' I don't know what really happened that night. George was with John Newcombe, a black-belt beer drinker. He was arrested for driving too slow. He accepted his responsibility...
...sure, we'd all be upset about it for a few weeks, and Florida's defiant orange juice embargo would result in a short-lived scurvy epidemic, but by 2004 we'd have pretty much forgotten about the whole thing. In politics, after all, four years is a lifetime...
...volume on their stereos, that her music sounds better when it's "played loudly." She lets tiny fluctuations in her music carry emotional weight, and she wants listeners to hear the particulars. After all, isn't love best measured in miniature? - a look across a breakfast table, a forgotten anniversary, a hug that lingers past hello...
...born. "Nancy Dickerson is on line two," begins the White House operator. Johnson picks up: "Yes, honey." She tries to start with a joke, but it warbles out: "The next time I need a new swimming suit I'm going to consult you." The President is silent, having forgotten a quip he made about her fashion sense that was picked up in the papers. Now she's jittery...
...rough stretch," junior forward Colleen Moore said. "Right now, we just feel like that's behind us. If we get in [to the tournament], that will be forgotten...