Others went back to college, enrolled in law school or otherwise joined the economic system they once spurned.

She believes that a seasoned older woman can learn to love the kind of (shortish, shy, not-so-wealthy) man she once spurned in her alpha-or-bust days.

In the Carter song, the lead singer addresses a lover who once spurned her, only to return years later to take her back.

Williams is now too susceptible to the consolations he once spurned; the poems are narrow at the base and wide at the top.

Justice Breyer's exhaustive dissent concluded: "[T]he very school districts that once spurned integration now strive for it.

Many of his ideas, once spurned, are now universally accepted.

Still others have responded to Mr. Castro's recent invitation to exiles, whom he once spurned as "worms" and "scum," and are visiting their families in Cuba.

So American women now ogle the macho men they once spurned.

U.J.A. donors are turning, instead, to institutions like Harvard University and the Metropolitan Opera, many of which once spurned Jews on their boards.

Imperial, already spurned once by Holly, offered to buy two-thirds of the company's stock at $105 a share and exchange the rest for stock in the merged company.