Word: forgoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Muguette Fabris, 22, had gone to Bordeaux to practice a little solid (89-50-90*) geometry. The judges took one look at Muguette in a swimsuit and-zut! She was Miss France. Back at the Lycée, the principal had no head for figures, made Muguette promise to forgo makeup at school and to come to work by bus instead of her customary bicycle. Muguette was not overly concerned: "Movies? Well, if the right contract came along. You know, life in a provincial town is not always rosy...
...season, more than enough to fill the city's five miles of beaches, 1,200 hotels and boardinghouses and scores of nightclubs. Some vacationers went south because they could not afford a European trip- "conditions" being what they are. But most were working-class families determined not to forgo their one gala spree of the year...
...Millar from the novel by C.P. Snow, is set in the leather-chaired somnolence of a common room at Cambridge, and makes it crackle with the charges and countercharges of a courtroom trial. Dramatically, the play accumulates tension without generating passion. But for the theatergoer who is willing to forgo emotional nourishment, it provides a stimulating mental feast...
...keep matters in hand without the use of clubs or guns. One night last week, when 16 Negroes gathered before the city hall to pray and sing hymns, Pritchett angrily rushed to the scene. He was irritated, he explained, because he had been told that the Negroes would forgo a demonstration that evening so that he could observe his twelfth wedding anniversary at home in peace. The Negroes obligingly dispersed, and Pritchett went home to continue his family celebration...
...peoples were well aware that it was the Soviet Union that last fall broke a three-year test moratorium and made such advances as to endanger the world's balance of nuclear power. They also knew that Russia's Khrushchev had rejected repeated U.S. offers to forgo testing if he would only sign a meaningful no-test agreement, controlled by on-site inspectors...