Word: foregoing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Limited by the extremely small stage, Wu decides to forego a set. However, the white curtain that serves as the backdrop for most of the play becomes boring. And the forest backdrop appears too infrequently to relieve the monotony...
...comes to sacrificing for the common good. Not surprisingly, the First and Second World Wars were accompanied by large-scale national mobilizations for the war effort. Millions fought, while those on the homefront sold Victory Bonds and gathered scrap iron. But the Life magazine appeals to conserve soap and forego new stockings quickly disappeared after the war ended, casualties of a flourishing consumer society...
...gutsy Greenhill was swept in three games by Berkeley Belknap Saturday afternoon but opted to forego the consolation round because of the injury...
...lead the Crimson in singles and doubles. In the doubles matches, though, the junior will play with Derek Brown and not his usual partner, Mike Zimmerman, with whom he is ranked fifth nationally. Zimmerman, recovering from a slight injury, will play number-two singles for the Crimson but will forego any doubles action...
...Without conferring with the [faculty], I telephoned [Bell]. I immediately sent a fax to his office and a Federal Express letter," Wisconsin Law Dean Cliff F. Thompson '56 said of his actions when he heard Bell planned to forego teaching at Harvard next year...