Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Communist high command, facing defeat in Korea, struck a major counterblow in Indo-China. Within a few days, the Communists forced the French to abandon a whole line of forts and thereby wrecked the French plan of containing and eventually starving out the rebels. At week's end the Moscow newspapers were giving as much space to Indo-China as to Korea...
...Cliserio Reyes was a standing joke. While other boys of his age in the small farming community interested themselves in girls or beisbol, 18-year-old Cliserio spent all his spare time and meager pocket money building model airplanes. To repeated gibes, and pleas from his friends to abandon such foolishness, he replied flatly: "Some day I'm going...
Will Cuppy won fame by using footnotes with abandon and often irrelevance. While the innumerable asides are good for a laugh or two, in the end they serve merely to slow up the reader and to bolster up dull and laborious passages with two line jokes...
Even the most austere Cornell undergraduate who may lead a sterile social life most of the year has two annual flings, the Spring and Fall Weekends. The "Big Weekends" are time for calculated abandon during which, on a structure of football or crew races, as the season demands, the University student body consumes an immense amount of drink, stages float parades, and throws an endless number of parties...
...President himself, confined to Washington by the Korean war, did not entirely abandon plans for invading Ohio, and he planned at least to bombard the No. 1 Republican position by radio before Election Day. Taft's opponent, State Auditor Joseph T. ("Jumping Joe") Ferguson, was adding to the fireworks with a far more effective campaign than even his supporters had expected, although he conceded that a Democratic victory would come more from votes against Taft than from votes for Ferguson...