Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contends that their basic wants can be met only by the surrender of their basic rights to totalitarian control. Such a turn of events would constitute a shattering blow to peace and stability in the world. It might well compel us to modify our own economic system and to forgo, for the sake of our own security, the enjoyment of many of our freedoms and privileges...
...business. For him, it would mean the first break in the group of old friends and party comrades with whom he shared Labor's triumph in 1945. For them, it would be the moment when they must go to the King, give up their seals of office, and forgo the honors, the chauffeurs and cars, the ?5,000 a year, the sense of power and position which most ministers, being human, come to consider theirs forever. Most of the ministers probably did not yet know just which heads would roll. Last week Prime Minister Attlee was apparently still making...
...thousands who feel the way I do, plus the thousands who might be shown that they are simply borrowing the money from their children, were to voluntarily forgo their share on the condition that the national debt be reduced that amount, I think we'd be getting somewhere...
...within a month, the U.S. will still face a serious steel shortage. The industry was one month behind schedule before the strike, lost another month (some 6,000,000 tons) because of the strike. Most steelmakers will have to reduce customers' tonnage quotas sharply, may even have to forgo assignment of quotas for a full quarter while catching up on unfilled orders (see below...
...would not for anything forgo the representation of Jewish boys that enroll year by year at Dartmouth," he added. "Some of our outstanding alumni are Jews, as are some of the foremost benefactors of the college. . . . However . . . Dartmouth . . . would lose its racial tolerance, which it is desperately anxious not to lose, were we to accept unexamined the great blocks of Jewish applications which come...