Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest victory in Russia was the victory of Moscow (see p. 18). Already retreating on the fighting front, Adolf Hitler and the Wehrmacht lost their last hope of salvage through Allied discord, their last chance that the Red Army might forgo the complete defeat of the German armies in the east...
...remind Mr. Smathers that servicemen also pay taxes-out of the salaries the gentleman insists come from taxes paid by him and the rest of the oppressed. His tone implies that the services are akin to charitable organizations, which he as a taxpayer is forced to support. Shall we forgo our salaries so that he does not have to pay the taxes from which such salaries are derived...
...sermon: such increases for any one group must not continue. Wage earners must forgo wage increases beyond those dictated by necessity. Ceilings must be put on many farm prices. (Price-controlled commodities have gone down, but this has been offset by a rise in uncontrolled goods.) Corporate profits must be cut. "Unless we step in and put a stop to further increases those ceilings will crack and our battle for stability will be lost. ... It means that the cost of living will begin to skyrocket, that demands will outrace incomes in a dizzy upward spiral that can only...
...DARters who will assemble next month. She outlined convention plans: i) to lambaste Union Now, and foreign-language schools; 2) to praise the work of "that great American, Martin Dies." Said buxom Mrs. Pouch: "Mr. Dies can never be discredited in our eyes." At their convention, DARters will probably forgo corsages, eschew orchids. Mrs. Pouch said that she had appealed to the Illinois delegation to see to it that the convention this year is not "lavish." Some of the delegates, said Mrs. Pouch, are even planning to wear old clothes. Added President Pouch: "We are going to emulate President General...
...Federal Shipbuilding and Dry dock Co.'s vast yards in Kearny, N.J., labor and management came to an impasse over a matter of policy. Wages, hours and conditions of work had already been settled or were not a matter of serious dispute. For promising 0PM to forgo strikes for a year, C.I.O. shipyard workers demanded a "union shop." Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, rejected the point on principle, stuck to Big Steel's long insistence on the open shop, turned down a Defense Mediation Board's compromise...