Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birmingham demonstrations have forced the President's hand. His failure to defend the demonstrators publicly would not retard their efforts; and it might turn them against the democratic system itself. If the President and his brother ignore the real significance of "Birmingham," they will forfeit their influence on Negro action in the South...
...tried to implement the 1940 Constitution. The land reform provisions especially were so radical that no previous government had sought to carry them out. The argument is that Castro attempted to realize them, lost middle class support as a result, and had to call in the Communists or forfeit his entire revolutionary effort. Draper does not comment on this analysis, or upon any of the arguments citing Cuba's economic problems at the time Castro assumed power...
Then, much too late, the matches became close and exciting. Although the Crimson won three of the next four, Cornell was safe enough to forfeit the unlimited match to Bob Fastov, and return to New York with their second league victory...
...steamy Madras, 1,000 miles to the southeast, where their own players had been working out for a month. Now the Mexicans asked the obvious question: how to get there. The Indians merely shrugged-adding that if the Mexicans did not appear, India would be forced to claim a forfeit...
...that Miller is unreadable but highly printable. A reading of Naked Lunch, the grotesque diary of Burroughs' years as an addict, suggests that no such drastic deflation will occur with him. For what it is worth. Burroughs will remain grand dragon of the YADs, by acclamation and by forfeit (he denies, of course, having anything in common with his beatnik vassals, but this is merely good form; no one ever admits to being a member of a literary movement started by someone else). Although Burroughs fancies himself a satirist and occasionally resembles one when the diary's heroin...