Word: forswear
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Shakespeare's tale of the King of Navarre and three young lords who forswear women for study, only for the Princess of France and three young ladies to come calling, is all satiric sideshows and sashayings, mixups and false beards. In the present production, the frills are multiplied-croquet games, early gramophones and automobiles, tea on the lawn, pink coats and blazers. At the start it seems rather chichi and cute, but in time it creates, and sustains, a genuine atmosphere...
There seemed to be no constructive answers. Diplomatic and economic sanctions, vigorously applied, might still force Russia's outlaws to forswear their barefaced ransom racket, but the immediate problem was to liberate the men ignominiously held by Hungary. And so the U.S. paid, got its people back, and wondered what to do next...
Later the Witnesses thunderously approved a resolution to forswear subversion and "as long as this world lasts, render to Caesar what is Caesar's." The Witnesses, said Witness President Nathan H. Knorr, are "pointing neither east nor west, but heavenward...
...swordplay. But his comrades Athos, Porthos and-Aramis are derring-doodlers. Athos (Van Heflin) is a self-pitying alcoholic, grieving over his betrayal by a buxom babe known around the French court as Lady de Winter (Lana Turner). Porthos is just a fortune hunter, and Aramis is ready to forswear the world...
...Term Only"), he let it be known that he intended to play plenty of golf (he used to shoot in the low 703) and take a three-month trip to Europe. But last week 64-year-old Roger Lapham decided to leave his clubs in the locker room and forswear the Grand Tour. The reason: Economic Cooperation Administrator Paul Hoffman had tapped him for chief of ECA's $338 million China aid mission. It was one of the toughest jobs going...