Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Vandenberg, he believed that harmony is possible-if: "the United States speaks as plainly upon all occasions as Russia does; the United States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its ideals as Russia does; we abandon the miserable fiction, often encouraged by our own fellow travelers, that we somehow jeopardize the peace if our candor is as firm as Russia's always is; we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to lapse...
...Captain Alfred H. Rooks reluctantly gave the order to abandon ship. Before it could be executed he was killed. Another torpedo struck home. The Houston lay dead in the water. For a few minutes she heeled far over to starboard. Then, at 12:45, on even keel, she disappeared, taking with her 500 of her dead and wounded crew. In the water that night, and later in prison camp, 227 more died. Of her whole complement, only 260 lived to tell the great tale...
Only by patience and skill would the Chinese Government find a way of living with its militant Communist minority. No Chinese Government, however, could accept an equal Russian economic partnership in China's northwestern provinces. The Russians were apparently trying to find out whether the U.S. would abandon its commitments to China and its own strategic stake in the western Pacific...
...noose was dangling over not only the General. If Ike's judgment could be trusted-that the Senators' recommendations would force the Army to abandon some of its overseas assignments-U.S. foreign policy was also in danger of strangulation...
Said Son Tachito ("little Tacho"), captain in the National Guard: "Papa, you had better abandon the Presidency while the leaving is good. The people are in an ugly mood, and we have enough money...