Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abandon the most fatuous and debilitating slogan that ever misled a generation," he told Brown undergraduates last week at the opening of a new college year. "Give up security as an ideal. Anyone who promises security is misbranding his political, social and economic goods ... If you insist on being cheated, buy gold bricks or perpetual-motion machines...
...Communist leaders, if Russia suffered real destruction, could abandon their own industrial cities and set up their new power centers in the great capitals and industrial complexes of Western Europe. Confronted with such a vast fact, the U.S. would be faced with these alternatives: 1) to try to bomb the Russians out of Europe, which would mean utter destruction of the ancient seats of Western civilization; 2) to mount an invasion of Europe, in the teeth of the Red army forces and their atomic bombs; 3) to let the Communists keep their hold on Western Europe-and pray...
There had been no abandon-ship order; crewmen, Navy nurses, doctors, dentists and scores of workmen from the Navy Yard simply launched rafts, or planks, or belted on life jackets and jumped for their lives. Toward the end, men waded into the freezing water which lapped up the decks, like bathers walking off a beach. But within 3? hours, in a remarkable rescue, 492 of the living had been lifted from...
...night wore on, Army weathermen, looking up at the rain and overcast which shrouded the Japanese capital, shook their heads. Staff officers urged the general to abandon the trip. At each objection the MacArthur jaw jutted out a little farther. "We go," said Douglas MacArthur. A little after 6 a.m. June 29, the wheels of the Bataan rolled down the wet Haneda runway, churning up a fine spray. Soon after the plane was airborne, MacArthur pulled out the corncob pipe which had been one of his World War II trademarks. "I don't smoke this back there in Tokyo...
Forum of Hate. The noisy debate of the McCarthy charges, she said, had reduced the Senate "to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity." Added Senator Smith: "I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this [Republican] side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges that have been attempted in retaliation...