Word: forsook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tulips & Terror. Hollanders forsook their tulips for daisies, wore them in their buttonholes, painted pictures of them. The daisy was their badge of allegiance to the House of Orange and exiled Princess Juliana, whose new daughter was named Margriet (Daisy). In Berlin the Sunday promenaders on Unter den Linden strolled past the bomb-pocked buildings and the windowless houses left by Allied bombers...
Columnist Walter Lippmann forsook foreign affairs and domestic politics for a moment last week to deliver a pep talk to the U.S. businessman. And he said a mouthful...
...Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, Earl of St. Andrews and Baron Downpatrick, and youngest (39) of the four living sons of King George V and Queen Mary, got on with his countrymen. They accepted him as royalty; they relished him as a rake; when in World War II he forsook private gaiety for public chores, they liked...
...Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...
...when the Viceroy, following the Constitution, declared India in the war, the Congress forsook provincial self-government, withdrew its ministries, began demanding Indian independence as the price of war cooperation. Meanwhile India's second largest political party, Mohamed Ali Jinnah's Moslem League, loudly claimed that it could never submit to united Indian self-government unless it had 50% representation, since otherwise India's Moslems would be a permanent minority under the Congress-dominated Hindu majority. The Moslem League claimed heavy discrimination against Moslems, even atrocities, by Congress bureaucracies under the Act of 1935. The League began...