Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loot. Cried Mohandas K. Gandhi last week when he heard of the trip: "Big merchants, capitalists, industrialists and others speak and write against the [British] Government, but in action do its will and even profit through it. ... [Independence] will come only when interests, big or small, are prepared to forgo the crumbs that fall to them from partnership with the British in the loot which British rule takes from India...
...civil differences in that common grave which held the latest victims of German savagery. At least for the moment, some of the Left and some of the Right seemed to have grasped the fact that so long as the common enemy must still be fought and defeated, they must forgo the luxury of fighting and defeating one another...
Checking of results will be done on school children. To provide a control group for Newburgh, the town fathers of Kingston, 32 miles to the north, have promised to forgo fluorine for the ten years. Newburgh and Brantford ought in the end to rate somewhere between Galesburg, Ill. (1.5 parts natural fluorine to a million of water) where school children average two and a half cavities each, and Michigan City, Ind. (0.5 to a million) where children have an average of ten cavities apiece...
...with the feeling that national planning of economics and the emergence of total war are linked and inseparable phenomena. Planning needs the integrating stimulus of an outside enemy and, conversely, the presence of the outside enemy demands planning of production for war purposes. To have peace, the nations must forgo the urge to canalize to fixed ends the productive energies of private citizens. That is the essence of the "good society...
...General Nikolai Vatutin, one of Russia's ablest exponents of blitz warfare, to strike west of Kiev with tanks and horsemen, without adequate infantry or cannon. The muddy roads delayed supplies and reinforcements, but the opportunity to deal the Wehrmacht a finishing blow was too tempting to forgo. Zhitomir fell (TIME, Nov. 22). The cavalry corps which took it seemed poised for a raid into prewar Poland...