Word: forgo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dangers. The treaty, said the President, "will not resolve all conflicts, or cause the Communists to forgo their ambitions, or eliminate the dangers of war." Even if the test ban agreement led to a lasting thaw, it would "bring new problems, new challenges from the Communists, new dangers of relaxing our vigilance or of mistaking their intent...
...they are generally younger than the winter crowd and they catch on fast. If the available entertainment doesn't suit, they seek out their own fun. In Mexico, where summer travel is up 22% this year, tourists often forgo the resort delights of Acapulco (8,674 rooms) for a tour of the country's archaeological treasures or two weeks exploring a remote fishing village such as Puerto Vallarta (less than 1,000 rooms) on the West Coast. So popular is Puerto Vallarta now that the hotels are 90% full throughout the summer, and one part of town...
Tabulating their midyear reports last week, the industry's leaders predicted that they would sell more than 750,000 color sets this year-nearly double 1962 sales. To keep up with demand, Admiral will forgo the usual two-week summer shutdown of its color TV assembly line at Harvard, Ill. RCA, which went it alone during the colorless years, and now sells 55% of all the color TV sets and almost all of the color tubes used by other manufacturers, is spending $11.6 million to expand its plant at Lancaster, Pa. Challenging RCA with new competition, Motorola last week...
...have been. The plot of this British thriller has a built-in beaut of a scientific gimmick: a visual recapitulation of some eerie experiments in "sensory deprivation" conducted recently in Britain and the U.S. Object of the experiments: to find out what happens to people who for long periods forgo the use of their senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, weight and direction...
...values of pop art-which is essentially a mild, unrebellious comment on the commonplace made by picturing it without any pretense of taste or orthodox technical skill. It is nothing new to transform nonart materials into works of art; but seldom have artists been so willing to forgo the transforming. They may paint a soup can and enlarge or repeat it; but the can remains a can, designed by the Campbell Soup Co. In defense, Pop Artist Tom Wesselmann says, "Objects like Coke bottles have powers. Brand products are here to stay." Ten, 20 or 50 years ago, any artist...