Word: forego
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fourth demand is also inherently directed against the University. At the first mass meeting, we overwhelmingly concluded that Harvard employees should have the right to forego their work to put forward whatever polities they choose. Realizing that the majority of workers were financially shackled to their jobs, we demanded that they be paid without reprisals while they chose to strike. In case after case, from top administrators down to individual supervisors, the employers, who know better than we about their workers' dependency have thwarted this demand. But after the issue of grades was relieved by way of a shaky compromise...
John Levin, Rocky Jarvis and Terry Oxford, who occupied the first three positions on the ladder last year, have all graduated. And the fourth man, senior Larry Terrell has decided to forego the sport this season. That leaves only juniors Bill Washauer and Chris Nielsen and a rusty Joe Cavanagh as experienced performers, and presents coach Jack Barnaby with a considerable patching job next week, when the Crimson goes South for seasoning...
...worst, they let me escape the guilt of my own elitism. Isolated sojourns into political activism convince me that I am a bona fide "radical," constantly demonstrating my willingness to forego middle class affluence. Armed with that self-image, I can indulge myself with all kinds of goodies when I'm off-duty, and call every working man's sneer that comes my way an offspring of "false consciousness." Whenever this happens, a little introspection provides a plausible (and comparatively mundane) explanation of a working-man's hatred. One might even call it "logical...