Word: forfeited
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem of who would decide the wording of school prayers; the possibility of offending children from families of minority religious beliefs; and the fundamental issue of the separation of church and state. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker, who led the opposition, concluded the Senate debate by asking his colleagues, "Why forfeit our birthright of religious liberty for a mess of speculative, political pottage...
Because of d'Aubuisson's blatant disregard, nay, hostility, towards human rights, his election would most likely force Congress to withdraw military aid to El Salvador list it forfeit any of the moral high ground U.S. foreign policy so aspires to. Moreover, the thought of a cut-off of its blood line would, immediately, pit much of the army against d'Aubuisson. Thus, the political floor work would hopefully collapse from underneath d'Aubuisson before the entire country blew up, the latter being the most likely outcome...
...state must ratify the compact without amendments by a July I deadline or forfeit its right to enter the agreement. To join late, a state's entrance would have to be unanimously approved by compact members...
...Harvard women's gymnastics team travelled to New London. Conn., Friday for a tri-meet with Connecticut College and Westfield College. A forfeit by Westfield, however, allowed Harvard's understaffed squad to nab a second place finish. Connecticut throttled the Crimson...
...ghostly and turbulent shadow over the whole gallery where other Titians, Veroneses and Moronis hang. Its subject is probably the most repulsive in the classical lexicon: the implacably vain Apollo has beaten the satyr Marsyas in a music contest judged by the nine Muses; now he collects his forfeit, which is to skin Marsyas alive. Renaissance humanists turned this myth into a fable of reason triumphing over darker instincts, and it was in that sense that Titian meant to paint...