Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leopold and his beloved father, mountain-climbing Albert I: "Leopold has the same passion for golf that Albert had for Alpinism. The big difference is that Albert would not dream of indulging in his favorite sport when there was state business to be transacted, while Leopold simply will not forgo a game of golf...
Last week the harried Chinese government, through its Washington ambassador, V. K. Wellington Koo, offered a proposal of its own. If the U.S. would agree, the Chinese government would forgo some of the ECA aid already appropriated, in order to have $500,000 worth applied to the education bills of its stranded scholars. That would at least get them through next June's final exams...
...debutante industry," twinkled the New York Star, "was trying to recover its aplomb." But it was still reeling, said the Star, from the news that tall, lissome Joanne Connelley was going to forgo her debut and get married instead. The man of her choice was Robert Sweeny, 37, an ex-amateur golf champion, ex-combat pilot, and onetime heavy beau of Babs Hutton and Lady Stanley...
Arthur Vandenberg had deliberately frittered away his chances. Why? The Presidency is an honor few men would willingly forgo. It was an honor Vandenberg himself had hoped for in 1936 and in 1940, when his chances of winning the election were considerably less. But his own position in history was now secure, his age (64) and his health (a "slow heart") might be severely tried by the burdens of the White House. It was a choice he could not bring himself to make...
...England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...