Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stripped of all but one of its geographers by the administrative move, the Department of Geology and Geography was forced to abandon Geography as a field of concentration, disrupting the educational plans of at least 15 undergraduates...
...great deal firmer and clearer than it had in some time. Reported TIME'S Washington Bureau: "Washington estimated tentatively that the Western Allies may be on the edge of their most important strategic breakthrough in the cold war since the Kremlin was forced, a year ago, to abandon the siege of Berlin...
...strategic decisions, such as the one to abandon Formosa, are the responsibility of the President of the U.S. To advise him on these matters, the President has the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the National Security Council composed of the Vice President, Secretaries of State and Defense, and the chairman of the National Security Resources Board. Last year when the Communists had conquered all of the Chinese mainland, the Joint Chiefs of Staff decided that the U.S. should not help the Chinese government hold Formosa. Later, persuaded by the views of General MacArthur, the Joint Chiefs reversed themselves, decided that...
...change its rules on gold sales. The Union wanted permission to sell half its annual output, which is the largest in the world, for whatever it could get. Since gold is bringing $40 an ounce in some free world markets, South Africa, in effect, wanted the Fund to abandon the official gold price of $35 an ounce...
...Lilly's long life as a hunter he probably killed close to 1,000 bears and mountain lions. He might have killed more but for one Sabbatarian self-limitation: he would abandon even the freshest trail on Saturday evening and refuse to pick it up again until Monday morning. Says Author Dobie: Ben Lilly "was in the tradition of the Mountain Men and was the very last man in that tradition. There can never be another...