Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yardlings took the freshman meet 56 3/4 to 52 1/4 when B.U. had to forfeit the climatic two-mile relay. Covering the 600 in 1:15.6, the Crimson's Lowell Davidson set up new freshman Cage and meet records...
Last week the Soviet press launched a campaign against tipping in restaurants. "Restaurant employees," said the magazine Literature and Life, "must be made to realize that they forfeit their human dignity by accepting tips, which are an insult to those who give and those who take." Asked whether there was one waiter in Moscow who would turn down a tip nowadays, Nikolai Fedorovich Zavyalov, head of the Moscow Restaurant Trust, sighed: "Not one." Zavyalov confessed that a recent experiment of adding on a 4% service charge in Moscow restaurants (6% at the posh Praga) had failed to stop the under...
Soccer encounters of the day saw Adams hold an undefeated squad from Eliot House to a 0-0 tie, despite a strong attack by the Elephants throughout the game. Unable to field a team against Leverett, Dudley was compelled to forfeit...
...York, Yazid suavely brushed off a horde of reporters and sped away in a black Mercedes to a week of discussion with rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas and his "Cabinet." Their talk revolved around two points: if they rejected De Gaulle's offer out of hand, they would certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause; but if they accepted all of De Gaulle's terms, including his refusal to recognize the F.L.N. as spokesman for all Algerians, they would risk loss of their leadership of the Algerian independence movement, perhaps even the defection...
...decided that certain products should not rate air time at all, e.g., hemorrhoid remedies. This spring, when the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's President Donald McGannon took charge of the N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential report shown to station owners and trade associations, McGannon's board finds much...