Word: forsworn
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Martha Grimes is an American mystery writer who up till now has forsworn the traditional metier of her countrymen, the novel of action, in favor of dead-on English-village mysteries of the kind wrought by Britons a half-century ago. Her seven novels have all been named for actual pubs, most of them in the English countryside, and until Help the Poor Struggler they have involved a quirky trio: a stereotypically literary, sensitive bachelor detective from Scotland Yard, a fey, scholarly nobleman who has eccentrically given up his titles, and, usually, the nobleman's meddling, Wodehousian aunt. That arch...
Gannett is undismayed by such declines. Said Chairman Allen Neuharth: "It is quite clear that weekend newspaper reading has had a stronger circulation pattern in the last several years." The chain already has forsworn one sure way of boosting the circulation of its newest addition. Although at least a score of Gannett newspapers now carry Parade, Neuharth said his company has no plans to force them to replace it with Family Weekly...
Even so, the Dominican Republic incident provoked an undercurrent of resentment in Latin America that helped spell the end of the Alliance for Progress. "Ever since the invasion of the Dominican Republic, we've been trying to tell other countries that the U.S. has forsworn military intervention," says Sol Linowitz, a former U.S. Ambassador to the O.A.S. who helped negotiate the Panama Canal Treaty. By far the greatest cost of the Grenada invasion, and the new assertiveness it exemplifies, may be that it resurrects in Latin America the "Yankee imperialist" stereotype that the U.S. has been struggling to shake...
Ancient damnation! O most wicked fiend! Is it more sin to wish Holy Cross thus forsworn, or to dispraise Harvard with that same tongue which I hath prais'd it with above compare so may thousand times? Go, predictions, thou and my school spirit henceforth shall be twain...
North Carolina and Richard Lamm of Colorado, now in their second terms. One suspects the veteran Indiana Congressman and former Majority Whip John Brademas, now president of New York University, has not forsworn politics for all time...