Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when it comes to applications to his house; A. R. Boyer, psychologist and professional Westerner; and Harry Keith, selfish and neurotic professor of History and Literature whose ambition, plus his predilection for other women, causes him to abandon his dipsomaniacal wife. If the parallelism is not one to one, quite clearly Miss Howe's Harvard faculty found its inspiration in the real thing...
Roman Catholic aloofness toward the church unity movement, predicted Manning, "may change, as many members of that communion hope and believe it will." Manning himself was as aloof as ever toward the often-proposed merger of the Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches. Said he: "If the Episcopal Church were to abandon or compromise its catholic belief as to the church and the apostolic ministry ... to unite with one among the Protestant churches, this would not be a step toward Christian reunion but a step directly away from it. They who urge such action are not thinking of reunion in world-wide...
...reign of good Queen Bess. Some religious authorities condemned it as fraud or dealing with the devil. Others gave it clerical approval. From England, it emigrated to the U.S., where it is still going strong, with most of the emphasis on water-finding. Modern, up-to-date dowsers often abandon the hallowed forked stick for an elaborate gadget pretending to use some scientific phenomenon, such as radioactivity or radar. That is dowsing just the same...
Projects already started (to the point of pouring the concrete or laying the bricks) can be completed. But U.S. builders will have to abandon about $14 billion of construction now in the blueprint stage ($4 billion for expensive, non-veteran homes, $10 billion for theaters, office buildings, etc.). Said the Wall St. Journal: "The drastic order, if tightly enforced, will halt what is potentially the largest nonresidential building spree in history...
That sounded like a new note of British resolution. How much Russian pressure would peaceful Britain stand? Four points seemed certain; Britain will not: 1) abandon Iran to Russia; 2) admit Russia to dominance in the southern or western Mediterranean; 3) waive her right to a western European grouping; 4) peacefully Accept any Russian move which directly weakens her Empire position...