Word: forswearing
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Plainly the government hoped that Sheik Abdullah would forswear his leo nine ways and calm his followers rather than hone their hopes of Kashmiri independence. As for the sheik, he allowed that his first task will be to "meet my people, know their views and understand them." He added: "Of course...
...were toasted in every pub when they were married: Baba to a wrestler, Pearl to a bandleader. Stockpiling Heads. Their father had little time for frivolity. A shrewd, self-effacing administrator, Sir Charles traveled to the far corners of his land persuading tribal chiefs to end their wars and forswear headhunting. When they protested that their enemies' heads were needed to propitiate the gods, the rajah ordered his English civil servants to stockpile mummified leftovers from previous wars and to lend them out to the villagers as needed. From his handsome riverside fortress in Kuching, he brought modest prosperity...
...some customary monastic pursuits: 15 years ago, all of Belmont's cooking and shoemaking was done by monks; now they have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar and rubble...
...intemperance. In Britain, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell placed himself unequivocally behind Macmillan. In France, every party except the Communists blasted Khrushchev. West Germany's Socialists, whose whole foreign policy has been based on the argument that Germany could be reunified if only Adenauer would withdraw from NATO and forswear rearmament, gulped, choked, then manfully reversed a policy of ten years' standing. Only a policy of Western strength, admitted a party spokesman, had deterred Khrushchev from pressing his demands on Berlin-a position that Adenauer had long maintained...
...president of the Oxford Union, sternly denounced this sort of "government by undergraduate resolution," compared it to the pacifist days of 1933 when the Union overwhelmingly voted that "this House will in no circumstances fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...