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Word: foreswear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ravenal's "modest proposal for ending Armageddon" also includes firm U.S. commitments not to bomb civilian targets and to foreswear the first-strike use of nuclear weapons. The result, he argues would be a lessening of the probability of an American first strike, accompanied by our own diminished vulnerability...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Avoiding Armageddon | 9/22/1977 | See Source »

...World Liberation Front. When derisive radicals dubbed them "Jesus Freaks," the Berkeley group adopted the epithet as its own, and now shares it with the movement. The Front publishes perhaps the best of the new underground Christian newspapers, Right On. In psychedelic typography, the paper urges its readers to foreswear promiscuity, drugs and alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Street Christians: Jesus as the Ultimate Trip | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

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