Word: forswearing
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Those two sardonic comments, overheard by a Western official, summarize the undercurrent of apprehension inside the Rumanian and Yugoslav governments in the wake of the Helsinki agreement. Both fear that the Soviet Union may be tempted to increase its pressure on Bucharest and Belgrade to forswear or curtail their independent ways...
...court for a quasi-religious retreat amid the guileless innocence of the countryside. The King of Navarre (David Suchet) proposes to his three attendant lords, Longaville (Robert Ashby), Dumaine (Michael Ensign) and Berowne (Ian Richardson), that they form "a little academe." They pledge to meditate, study, fast, and forswear women. This pledge is scarcely uttered when four devilishly distracting ladies appear on the sylvan scene...
...highest order, and a scorner most subtle, Wilfrid Sheed can light up another man's novel, amuse the children by blowing smoke rings for a quarter of an hour, and then stub out the butt with a gesture so incisive that the wretched author resolves to forswear literature and apprentice himself to a tree surgeon. But Sheed is also a novelist himself, so skilled that a few years ago, in Max Jamieson, he managed to write a strong and eloquent novel whose main character was a critic. The feat was the equivalent of successfully memorializing a dentist...
...little choice other than to press on vigorously in scientific research; he rejects the notion that the only options are to abandon science and become primitive, or continue it and be destroyed. Lessing echoes the warning of Biochemist Philip Handler, president of the National Academy of Sciences: "If we forswear more science and technology, there can be no cleaning up cities, no progress in mass transportation, no salvage of our once beautiful landscape and no control of overpopulation. Those who scoff at technological solutions to these problems have no alternative solutions...
...B.S.A. has also faced up to the drug problem: last May, after Scouts at a conference in Denver admitted having experimented with drugs, a new pledge was devised in which Scouts forswear the use of drugs and promise to try to get non-Scout friends to make the same commitment...