Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwavering eye on the pork barrel. Last week his colleagues discovered that Kenneth McKellar had raised his sights. Still peering sharply for old-fashioned patronage, he began a cloakroom campaign to become Senate President pro tempore-a position which Virginia's able, venerable, but ailing Carter Glass will abandon when the 79th Congress convenes...
...British freighter was outward bound on the broad St. Lawrence River. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion. The order to abandon ship came almost immediately, and 17 men scrambled into a boat and shoved off. "We were adrift for about ten minutes when we heard a second explosion. The ship went down fast after that. We . . . didn't see anything more of the rest of the crew." At week's end, more than 40 men were still missing...
...London cabby is a very special Briton. For the reckless abandon of the Paris taximan, the invective flow of the Cairo driver, the proletarian dynamism of the Moscow hackman-who, even before the German invasion, drove his car as if it were a tank-the London cabby substitutes a shatterproof Cockney calm. Last week that calm was somewhat ruffled. The London cabby had his back up. He had decided to enter politics...
...this decade you have separated "business" and "industry" from the ordinary lives of the people and have applied against them a philosophy of hate and mistrust, but we, the people, say: business and industry are part of our daily lives; in hurting them you hurt us. Therefore abandon this attitude of hate and set our enterprises free...
...along for a while, as a beggar, but she cannot continue as a great nation that way. ... So long as I have a tongue to speak and a hand to write, I shall go on repeating what I have said for 50 years. We are not bestial enough to abandon the truth...