Word: forego
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team would be even stronger if four swimmers hadn't quit the team. John Munk, the best butterfly competitor in Harvard history, decided to forego swimming this year in order to pursue other interests and determine what to do after graduation in June...
...very tight money," Slingerland, who said she had waited to continue her education until her children were grown, continued. "These expensive demands of ours could very well prejudice institutions against granting us equality. Also the demands raise costs for students who have more emotional control, who are willing to forego children, even husbands, for the sake of scholarship. There are going to be more and more of these women a time goes...
...years of The Movement, before it was necessary to retreat to Vermont or join the Weathermen. Mungo seems to be an individual with a talent for riding the crest of his time, just far enough ahead of everybody to have fun and make trouble, and just canny enough to forego the martyrdom of regimentation or incarceration. "I seldom try to convince anybody of anything (except perhaps in print), cause if they don't already know, I figure I can't tell 'em. If it isn't happening to you right now, I can't save you, brother," he writes...
...Then lap it all up with your tongue. He'll wriggle with delight and you'll have the fun of an extra dessert. If you have a weight problem, use one of the many artificial whipped creams on the market (available in boxes, plastic containers and aerosol cans) and forego the coconut and chocolate...
...difficult circumstances of Russia at war, it was inevitable that Lenin would forego this gradualism and do what he wanted with a maximum of dispatch. The harshness and momentary brutality of centralism did prove necessary to defeat the Whites. In a country that had always been far from rich, it seemed fairly impossible to allow local autonomy in the distribution of material resources and still succeed in drawing the whole nation together. By and large, the Soviet citizenry acknowledged the need, if not the desirability, of centralism at the time of the civil...