Word: forfeit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hands out of 4.500 were raised against the government's pro-Market resolution. The stage was then set for Macmillan, and he received one of the greatest ovations of his 40-year political career. In a passionately felt speech, he declared that Britain must enter the Market or "forfeit the chance of influencing events. If we delay indefinitely, it will be too late. Now is the opportunity, and we must seize it. With the development of the European idea, there has come a resurgence and a new vigor in all aspects of European life. There is something here...
...really indicative of their strength. Four of their original starters left school, giving coach John Lee problems right from the start. Great depth again has proved to be the saving factor in most meets. But, for the Princeton meet (one of their two losses), they were forced to forfeit two crucial matches, which determined the outcome of the meet...
Winthrop House and Lowell House, however, have chosen to forfeit their planned dances in favor of late parietal hours. Closed dances will be run at Adams and Leverett House, and possibly Quincy; with Eliot, Dunster, and Kirkland sponsoring open ones...
...quantity that is suspect. There is so much of it, and most of it is unearned. His characters are not scarred by life, but scared by life into a paralysis of will. By claiming total irresponsibility for their lives ("One can do nothing''), they all but forfeit the compassion they might arouse for their sorrows. Their self-pity stifles pity...
...should be denied the rites of the church for violating the Sixth Commandment. Custom, later elevated to law, demanded desecration of the corpse. Until well into the 19th century. British suicides were buried at night, at crossroads, with a stake driven through their bodies. All property of suicides was forfeit to the Crown. By 1900 most of these medieval monstrosities had been repealed. But attempted suicide was still a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment up to two years. And the successful suicide was still denied church rites if he took his life while "of sound mind...