Word: forswear
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...early 1960's. The government established the program under the premise that the country would benefit economically and militarily if more Americans received a college education. Universities gleefully accepted these funds that greatly facilitated an expansion in their student enrollments. It would be unconscionable for our university to forswear the link between "draft registration and financial aid" now that the money will be accompanied by bothersome paperwork...
...President's most recent threatened cuts in aid--termed by one national spokesman "the greatest crisis high education has seen for years"--may force them to consider alternatives to Harvard's traditional guarantee of full aid to all accepted applicants. Other colleges, most recently Wesleyan, have already had to forswear such policies...
...over their heads and peered out through mirrored eye slits. The usual uniform is a brightly colored windbreaker over a jumpsuit. Gloves are worn at all times. Members can say yes, no or "I don't know" but otherwise communicate only by written messages. They study the Bible, forswear sex, drugs and alcohol. They are, however, permitted to watch TV newscasts and read newspapers to emphasize the differences between the values of the camp and the outside world. The newspaper obituaries, stock market reports and sports pages are clipped out because they are considered distracting...
...CONSERVATIVE production by G & S criteria, The Yeomen of the Guard is happily bereft of the gimmickry and contemporary updating that characterized recent versions of the more popular Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore; the audience's relative unfamiliarity with Yeomen has allowed director John Campbell Butman to forswear innovation, since whatever happens on stage will be new. Butman also abandons much of the elaborate stylization which shaped the performances in this fall's production of Iolanthe, encouraging his leads to act with greater naturalism and leaving the contorting and caricaturing to the lesser characters...
Compelled to forswear sex out of an exaggerated fear for her lovers' wellbeing, Sand would deliberately transform her passion into a chaste maternal solicitude for her beloved. Eventually the privation she imposed upon herself would sour and destroy the relationship. As seen in her letters and diaries, this emotionally exhausting, sexually unfulfilling pattern is endlessly repeated until her life begins to read like a cautionary tale on the excesses of romantic love...