Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether the American government subscribes to this new position and whether it will be willing to abandon its dogmatic position on Far Eastern problems is not clear. But the turn of events in Korea made it tragically plain that this country has been supporting a big policy with a small army. General MacArthur's "end of the war" drive provided the denouement; it was, as Tokyo now admits, a dangerous gamble, and we lost...
...reason for astonishment or indignation . . .' Having completed this catalogue of disaster there is a certain satisfaction in [concluding] 'it might be worse'-and since it is a phrase which . . . has served very well from the Spanish Armada to the London blitz we are not likely to abandon...
...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...
When the Federal Government stepped in twelve years ago to salvage his foundering Dollar Steamship Lines, President R. (for Robert) Stanley Dollar was grateful for the chance to abandon ship. His famed globe-girdling shipping line, founded in 1901 by his canny Scottish father, Captain Robert Dollar, was crusted with the barnacles of mismanagement, and carried a top-heavy load of holding companies...
...reappraisal of the therapeutic use of penicillin and a thorough rationalization of every dose-and amount-should be undertaken," said Captain Oilman. "We must abandon the thought current in some quarters that this antibiotic is a cure-all or that its prophylactic use is justified. Not only is the routine use before all operations, dental as well as surgical, unsound, but the facility with which it is administered for almost every complaint . . . needs to be halted...