Word: forsworn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a man possessed, Nader has forsworn any semblance of a normal life. His workdays last 16 to 20 hours, often seven days a week. He has no secretaries, no ghostwriters, no personal aides other than his summer volunteers. Nader operates from two little-known Washington addresses and two unlisted telephones?one in the hallway outside the $80-a-month furnished room that has been his home for the past five years, the other in his one-room office in the National Press Building. He rarely answers knocks on the door and sometimes lets the telephone ring; the surest...
...resolution to the same effect. In 1943, Franklin Roosevelt pledged that the U.S. would use those weapons only if an enemy used them first. Under State and Defense Department pressure in 1959, however, Congress refused to make formal the "no first strike" rule. Still, the U.S. has in effect forsworn any intention of initiating deadly chemical-biological warfare. The use of herbicides to defoliate Vietnamese jungles, plus tear gas and CS to drive the Viet Cong from their tunnels, has brought some criticism; yet the effects have been exceedingly mild compared with the potential of other available chemical weapons...
...Largely because of his concern, three men were saved from the gas chamber. In New York City, 250 youthful executives are giving up much of their leisure time to help black and Puerto Rican entrepreneurs open businesses in the slums. In California, James Lorenz, a bright young lawyer, has forsworn a more profitable law practice in order to establish a statewide legal-aid service for Mexican-American farm workers...
...inheritance of Kennedy's popular support is problematic. Many of his partisans, stunned and embittered, have already forsworn further interest in the outcome of the election-an attitude that would hurt the Democratic candidate in November. Yet thousands of former R.F.K. backers in organized labor and among Negroes, Mexican-Americans and urban ethnic groups will undoubtedly gravitate to Humphrey. Students, intellectuals and antiwar Democrats who favored Kennedy will probably wind up with McCarthy...
...breed of specialists-have hardly begun to consider their ramifications. What happens, for example, if a civilian British scientist should kill an American or a Russian astronaut on the moon? Who would arrest whom, and what court of what country would have jurisdiction? Despite the fact that nations have forsworn territorial rights on celestial bodies, questions of property rights are bound to arise when exploration and interplanetary travel increase. The French have already raised one question: What happens if one nation establishes a mining camp en the moon and starts sending back valuable samples to the earth for analysis...