Word: forsook
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...blocking back position is one of the Big Green's major problems and has been ever since Harry gates forsook football for religion two years ago. At present don Norton is installed in the first team berth on the basis of his two years experience...
...French could no longer defend it, the German conquerors could not reach it. Slapping down a blockade that severed the Empire from France, politically and economically, Great Britain sat down to wait for pressure to produce results. Last week they came in a rush as colony after colony forsook the Vichy Government for the defiant banner of General Charles de Gaulle, self-appointed leader of "free Frenchmen...
...Asahel II, kept it so until last week. For years he personally took over delinquent loans rather than let them spot the bank's records. A stickler for liquid assets, he astounded U. S. Treasury officials by turning in $350,000 in gold when the New Deal forsook the gold standard. Like the elder J. P. Morgan, he had plenty of money to lend to a man with character, none for a man without it, Stubborn, independent, able, he refused to close his firm for the 1933 bank holiday, went out in the street and urged jittery depositors...
...racquetmen, the Englishmen would have had no actual contact with this University until the match began. In fact, there might have been no match at all, as they did not even know where to inquire about the time and place of the encounter. The one or two racquetmen, however, forsook their study for hour examinations, took their visitors to supper, and put them up in their rooms or those of friends...
Turning to radio, Kathleen auditioned herself into the lead in a nationally known domestic serial, Doc Harding's Wife. When a part opened for her in One Thing After Another, she gladly forsook the microphone...