Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to Bruce Harriman '50, president of the Key, neither the Dean's office nor the Student Council would provide the money necessary for the affair. Rather than abandon the idea the cabinet members decided to invest their own cast...
Spoil the Broth. On one point the statement's drafters were firm. National Committeeman Werner Schroeder, who speaks for the Chicago Tribune's Colonel Bertie McCormick, wanted to abandon the bipartisan foreign policy, but he was briskly quashed. Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge fought vainly for a more vigorous civil-rights plank. Cried Lodge: "We've got to get the ball and run with it. We must declare our forthright determination to break a filibuster if necessary...
...auditorium filled up and overflowed into a smaller chapel downstairs. Classes had to be canceled altogether. Some speakers came forward boldly and eagerly, others were so overcome with shyness that they had to abandon the attempt and come back later to try again. Some broke down completely...
...American reporter played by Paul Kelly. This man rushes hell bent for leather through the plot infecting people with 100 percent Americanisms. His sentiments are admirable but I couldn't help wondering why he never got in trouble through his spouting them behind the Iron Curtain with such abandon. Every few minutes the Colonel's party line would prove embarrassingly illogical before the blasts of the reporter...
...whether the effort which is being made away from destruction is as great and compelling as the effort which impels us toward it," editorialized the Louisville Courier-Journal. Michigan's convalescing Senator Arthur Vandenberg proposed that the President formally notify the United Na tions that the U.S. would abandon the H-bomb project as soon as Russia agreed to a program of international control...