Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot. Besides flying his airplane and watching intently for the first sight of the ground below, he must also watch the ILS instruments or listen to the GCA talker, or do both to check one against the other. When the plane gets near the ground, both landing systems abandon it. The pilot must make the final approach and landing himself, though the visibility may still be too poor for him to see the ground properly. With the pilot's attention so completely occupied, any emergency, such as minor mechanical trouble, is more likely to develop into an accident...
...addition to his other qualifications, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission must abandon all his business connections, get along on a comparatively unrewarding $15,000 a year, and be ready at all times to suffer the slings and arrows of Capitol Hill. From a list of 30 candidates, President Truman last week extracted one willing to take the consequences...
...physicists, says Seitz, must forget their "sense of sin" about the atomic bomb and their feelings of guilt. They must abandon their "one world" pacifism. They must pitch in and help at once, or the civilization they love will sink back into medieval darkness...
...yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies and spent their hard-earned profits in "roaring, riotous debauch, devoted in about equal measure to lethal whisky, reckless gambling . . .and an orgy of sexual abandon with the complacent Indian girls and squaws." The sun-blackened trappers modeled them selves after their No. 1 foe, the Indian...
...Soviet government . . . will not abandon further efforts directed toward insuring peace, and is ready to be an active participant in all honest plans, measures and activities to avert...