Word: forsook
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...Pound forsook his country: the U.S. would not leave off rustling its bank notes to listen to him. The separation was final. London listened more attentively. There Pound began to publish his opaque, lapidary, brilliantly polished poems. Some of the literati began to call him the master verse maker of his generation...
...While the younger Patiño was in trouble for his peripatetic marital habits, the older Patiño picked up his traveling kit for reasons, said rumor, connected with the hue & cry over the untaxed profits of nonresident aliens in the U.S. Father Simon Ituri Patiño forsook his modest suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for the rigors of the low-taxed Argentine pampas. Stopping over in New Orleans, Patiño jammed himself into a ten-room suite in the Roosevelt Hotel. In a grey suit, wearing a grey fedora and grey gloves...
Thus fixed, Vigeland married himself to his job, forever forsook all ordinary social life. Even wives (he divorced two) were out. Oslo's citizens caught only brief glimpses of him-when he took walks armed with a heavy stick, to protect himself from dogs, which he hated. One result of his personal seclusion: Vigeland is far less known internationally than his fellow Scandinavian sculptor, Sweden's Carl Milles...
...knows his limitations. He is frank with himself and his friends in visualizing himself as the ordinary, honest politician grown to stature through patience, hard work and luck. He believes in strict party responsibility, a politician's reward for work done, and complete loyalty to friends. (He never forsook Tom Pendergast, even after Boss Tom had gone to Leavenworth.) He is no theorist. In his Administration there are likely to be few innovations and little experimentation...
...years asperitous, 65-year-old Sir William Beveridge waited in vain for the Government to implement his famed social security report. Last week, his patience exhausted, he forsook Oxford to take his plan to Parliament himself. He will stand as a Liberal, is virtually assured of election under the wartime party truce. Soon he will have another rod in pickle for the Government: his new Plan for Full Employment in a Free Society...