Word: forsook
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...coach has five returnees from last year scheduled for starting positions this year. He also has a returnee from two years ago who forsook wrestling last year for football...
When Bosch was bounced, Martin -despite J.F.K.'s mock threat-was called home to demonstrate Washington's stern disapproval of the military-backed regime that took power. Four months later, crushed by President Kennedy's assassination in the interim, Martin forsook diplomacy to begin writing his book...
...watch one of the world's first air shows at Rheims, France. Out of school, he became a plantation manager in the Mississippi Delta, turned naturally enough to airplanes as the best way to dust boll weevils off his cotton. When others sought the service, Woolman forsook cotton growing for crop-dusting...
...Josephus was a turncoat. During the savage Roman-Jewish war that destroyed the Jewish state and scattered its people around the world, Josephus expediently forsook his Jewish citizenship to become a Roman. In countless apologias, he argued that his aim was not to save his skin but to convince his countrymen that their defeat was inevitable. Later, as a court favorite in Rome, he turned out voluminous histories extolling the grandeur of the Roman Empire. But while rendering unto Caesar, he was a lucid, readable historian, whose chronicles are packed with largely reliable political and social detail...
Although Cosi's producers speak of the "professionals" in their cast, their oldest performer is under 30. The female leads are a Cambridge housewife who studies voice, and a recent Miss Alabama who forsook the South to attend Boston's New England Conservatory of Music...