Word: forsook
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...both sides forsook defense in their desperate effort to pull ahead in the frame’s waning moments, sophomore Dylan Reese’s failed clearing attempt squirted to Cavanagh at the Harvard blue line, where he dashed past a pair of Colgate defenders and headed up ice with only Mormina left to beat. Afforded hardly any space at all, Cavanagh deftly pushed a pass to himself around the Raiders’ last man as he crossed center ice, then fought to squeeze off a wrist shot in the slot as Mormina attempted to haul him down...
...world, you'll have to find a way to restore American leadership. Fortunately, you have the skills and circumstances to pull it off. As President Bush savors his triumph, the history books beckon. And you can help him take a page from Ronald Reagan, who in his second term forsook the mean streets of the cold war for the high road of history-making diplomacy. Reagan's reward was breathtaking. He brought down the Soviet empire without a shot being fired. Here are some ideas on how to reunite America's strength with trust and respect. Let's start with...
...politics, was the key to China's future. "Jianli decided to study math at Berkeley," says Fu, now a statistician at Harvard Medical School, "because he wanted to serve his country." But when the student democracy protesters began to flood Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, Yang forsook his equations for late nights watching the TV news. And after Deng Xiaoping declared martial law several weeks later, Yang voluntarily returned to China to support the demonstrators. "He knew that something major was happening, and he couldn't bear the thought of not being a part of it," says...
...readily consented to the only proposal of marriage that ever was made me, which was when I was a virgin; but too easily confiding in the person's sincerity that made it, I unhappily lost my own honor by trusting his; for he got me with child, and then forsook me. That very person you all know; he is now become a magistrate of this county." By doing her duty to bring children into the world, despite the fact that no one would marry her, and being willing to do so despite the public disgrace she argues that she deserved...
...befitting a company that forsook the plodding world of energy production for a high-flying life of the spread, trading, retailing and - it turns out - creative-accounting its way to Wall Street glory, the decline and fall of Enron has been a clatter of dominoes. The $1.2 billion hit from a shady partnership venture gone bad. The SEC investigation into how Enron hid massive amounts of debt off its books where Wall Street couldn't see it. The frantic talks with banks, creditors, and a suitor/savior, fellow Houston giant and erstwhile competitor Dynegy...