Word: forgoing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...domain. The Soviet bloc represents an amalgamation of about 900 million people normally constituting more than 20 distinct national groups. [In view of this] the United States does not believe in practicing neutrality. Barring exceptional cases, neutrality today is an obsolete conception. It is like asking each community to forgo a police force, and to leave it to each citizen to defend his own home with...
Sigmund Freud once complained that many biographers idealize their subjects and thus "forgo the opportunity of penetrating into the most fascinating secrets of human nature." His own biographer need have no guilt feelings on this score. British Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones, the only loyal survivor of Freud's original disciples, reveres the Master of Psychoanalysis ; yet he is able to probe for many of the most fascinating secrets of Freud's nature. The first volume of Jones's projected three-volume biography (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) took the subject through his youth-including such matters as breast-feeding...
...Habits. It had proved too hard for Communists to forgo their old habits and run the country with a light touch. Once they eased up on the compulsion, 51% of the collective farm members walked out, worsening the food situation. With penalties on workers abolished, output dropped. Said Budapest Red Chief Istvan Kovacs: "We are producing less, worse and dearer, and at the same time we want to live better." The Reds lopped off 200,000 civil servants from the top-heavy bureaucracy, but Hungary's industry, its initiative sapped by years of being told what...
Last week angry Archbishop Jachym returned to battle with a public petition and a threat. Titled "On Behalf of Those Suffering Pangs of Conscience," the petition asked: "Shall the widow because she draws a pension of several hundrad schillings ... be obliged to forgo the primitive right of marrying again?" If the state refuses to act, wrote the Archbishop, "the bishops [will be] obliged to ... order the proper priest to perform the marriage in open contravention...
...international routes and sell its fleet of 4 DC-6s and DC-6Bs. The government-subsidized air line needs $5,000,000 immediately to buy four Douglas DC-7s to compete with other carriers, another $15 million over the next ten years for jet liners. President Magsaysay would rather forgo the prestige of an international line, spend the money on rural projects and on improving domestic air service...