Word: forsworn
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Shaw, who was on the brink of fame as a playwright when they married in 1898, had already forsworn meat and liquor; after their marriage, he claimed, he also gave up sex. He had remained a virgin until he was 29 and even thereafter, said one disenchanted lady, "seemed to have no wish for and even to fear passion." Charlotte, for her part, had had a series of platonic love affairs, but invariably backed away when her suitors pressed too closely. She was deeply stirred by only three men in her life, and all three were extravagant egotists who demanded...
...fallout shelter and volunteer fire department. St. Vincent's runs its own radio station, probably is the only U.S. monastery to have a monk with the official title of public relations director. In the interests of modern efficiency, North Carolina's Belmont Abbey has forsworn 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...
...include a demand that West Germany, as a NATO partner, should have nuclear weapons as well as "modern launching systems," and an equal voice with the U.S. in any decision to use atomic warheads. In the past, as Kennedy recalled last week at his press conference, Adenauer has forsworn nuclear weapons for his army...
...official level, De Gaulle achieved little. Speaking as a man without any stockpile of A-bombs of his own, De Gaulle repeated his proposal that all nuclear weapons should be destroyed and forsworn by everyone. Apparently, he is undeterred by the probability that the destruction of atomic weapons would simply restore military primacy to the nation with the most potent conventional armed forces. Staunchly convinced that Europe's future depends upon the close collaboration of France with Germany, he gave Prime Minister Harold Macmillan little sympathy in his plea for a showdown in establishment of the Common Market...
...Having forsworn the part of Hamlet a few years ago, Gielgud now says he will not play Benedick again after this production finishes its present run on Broadway. When someone objected, he replied, "I'll always be left with Lear and Prospero...