Word: forsworn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Passport applications in January were down 16% from a year ago, and resort reservations in Massachusetts are off 25%. In Atlanta, Jerry and Margaret Sullins have forsworn restaurant meals, and invite friends over for home-cooked dinners instead. "That way we don't feel closed in, and it's cheaper than going out," says Margaret...
...telescope, perhaps five or six stories above the ground, is at best an unenviable privilege. But Mrs. Burbidge continued observing well into her sixth month of pregnancy; her only child, Sarah, 15, perhaps prenatally influenced, insists that she will never follow her mother's example. Margaret Burbidge has forsworn traditional domesticity. Except on rare occasions, the Burbidges dine out. Asks jovial Geoffrey Burbidge: "What's wrong with restaurant food...
...county chairmen. He is a close third in polls of registered Democrats (after Muskie and Edward Kennedy). But his 1968 defeat hurts badly, he is probably a too familiar face, and his nomination might touch off a schismatic fourth-party movement to the left. EDWARD KENNEDY. He has repeatedly forsworn any notion of running, although he has stopped short of a Sherman statement. He has made none of the quiet moves of a man who, despite public coyness, means to become a candidate. He almost certainly will not enter any primaries-but in eight states his name, as a prominently...
...Then he became an investment banker until signing on as Nixon's chief fund raiser in 1968; he raised $34 million. Stans' main concession to contemporary concerns has been to give up his favorite hobby -big-game hunting-for the duration; his wife Kathleen has also forsworn her collection of leopard and cheetah coats...
...Freaks, are the most visible; it is they who have blended the counterculture and conservative religion. Many trace their beginnings to the 1967 flower era in San Francisco, but there were almost simultaneous stirrings in other areas. Some, but by no means all, affect the hippie style; others have forsworn it as part of their new lives...