Word: forswearing
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...drawn (and quartered) "would find it difficult to live inside the same house together, let alone inside the same skin. . . . Henry Wallace No. 1 is a mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...
...Forswear all Federal sales and excise taxes (except on tobacco, liquor and perhaps gasoline), because such taxes boost the price of goods and reduce sales. Such taxes, say Ruml & Sonne, are deflationary, lit the lowest incomes hardest...
Vermont's tousled-haired, horticulturist Governor, George D. Aiken, proposed to his opponent for Republican Senatorial nomination that they jointly forswear roadside political advertising. His reason: "A wild clematis is far more attractive to our guests than either your face or mine on the side of a tree or barn...
...mountain boys & girls at Caney Creek get their education free. In return they must promise to return home and work among the Kentucky mountain folk. When the chosen few (the waiting list is 1,000-long) enter, girls must forswear jewelry, cosmetics, slang, high heels. For boys the rules are stiffer: no tobacco, gambling, liquor, guns or "unauthorized meetings with the opposite...
...first glimpse she had of herself in cinema caused Actress Bergner to forswear it. She took it up again because, improvident, she wished to make some money for a sick friend. Appearing in Nju, she married the director, Dr. Paul Czinner who has since done all her pictures. Actress Bergner likes Schnitzler, wiener schnitzel, skating, odd-looking clothes. She dislikes women who smoke, smokes incessantly herself...