Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacrifice of some of our abundant food supply is equally essential in the fullest sense of that much abused word, to the winning of the peace. The choice is clear and inescapable, and future generations will judge us on our decision. Have we the intestinal fortitude to forego a little-how pitifully little !-present comfort for immense future gain? I think, I hope, that most Americans, when they realize fully the situation, will do the wise, the generous, the intelligent thing. Newspapers, periodicals, the radio have a grave public responsibility in educating the public conscience and intelligence in this matter...
...hike in vacation pay from $50 a year to $75. (Because stocks of coal are critically low, the miners will forego their time off, but will collect vacation money...
...U.S.S.R.'s need for credits does not put her over a barrel. If she does not get credits she can substitute another decade of grinding want for the Russian masses, can again concentrate every ounce of national energy on building industrial plants, forego even a slight advance in living standards. If a prewar Stalin could hold Russia's nose to the grindstone, a stronger, victorious Stalin probably could, if necessary...
...firmly convinced that the ambitious, imaginative student whose college education has been interrupted by two, three, or perhaps even five years of war will be sorely tempted to forego further study and get established in a job. The evidence from letters of inquiry received daily here and in other colleges can be cited to the contrary. But there is a vast difference between what a young man now immersed in the task of fighting a war thousands of miles away from home thinks he will do when he returns, and what he in fact will then decide...
Bearded, greying, Sir Sayed Abdel Rahman el Mahdi Pasha grieved to see his subjects forego the joys of marriage because the price of wives had soared. The most diligent young Sudanese could not hope to save the $400 a buxom maiden's parents asked; $100 brides were never of much account...