Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon men were saying last week that Mao Tse-tung would not like to pay the price of prolonged sieges of U.S. beachheads, buttressed by all the fire power that artillery, airplanes and warships could bring to bear. And even if the Chinese should force the U.N forces to abandon the Seoul-Inchon perimeter, they would have a still harder nut to crack at Pusan. The farther south they go, the longer their supply lines would be and the more vulnerable to attack...
...complacently called, could not go on much longer. So long as sacrifices were not being demanded of everybody, the Administration was finding it hard to demand them of anybody. Top men in industry and the professions had been turning down Government posts; no automaker wanted to abandon his market or toe a price line if no one else had to. And so it went...
...narrow mountain road which led to safety, encircling Communist troops had blown the only bridge across a reservoir. With the bridge gone, the 20,000 men of the 1st Marine Division and the Army's 7th Infantry Division last week apparently had no choice but to abandon their vehicles, take out on foot and make a 20-mile detour through enemy-infested hills...
...Cronin abandoned his original plans for breaking through the walls of the present dining room and establishing a smaller room for private functions because the Pediatric Center location is too small. Prohibitive rent caused the Catholic Club to abandon plans to use the location between Dunster and Holyoke Streets as a meeting place...
Union difficulty has forced Hasty Pudding Theatricals to abandon use of the Kaufmann Theatre for its on-the-road Christmas vacation New York...