Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time has come when the College should make a decision one way or the other on the question of intercollegiate athletics--either abandon them altogether, or give them enough importance so that the Harvard teams can compete on an equal basis with the teams which they have traditionally scheduled. Mr. Bingham can no longer hide behind the artifice of hiring and firing of coaches every couple of years. He is the athletic director, and with him lies the responsibility of organizing an athletic program which is workable, and of making a forthright statement to the student body and alumni...
...Nourse thought the Federal Government should recognize that bigness in itself is no evil. Said he: "Large-scale operations are essential to greater achievement and efficiency. The Government should accept business practices which . . . promote trade or facilitate maximum production. It should virtually abandon the attack on bigness as such...
...doesn't tell the whole story. Acheson's assistants themselves state that Emmanuel was "found in-admissable under our laws." Although Emmanuel was never formally refused a visa, he almost certainly would have been unless the State Department's strategy was to stall him until he was forced to abandon voluntarily his U.S. trip...
...security there? ¶As Mao's visit to Moscow indicates, he has shown no sign of wavering from the international Communist line. If he does set out to become a Tito, recognition can just as well wait until that happy day. ¶To recognize Mao would be to abandon America's friends in China-not only the Nationalist government, but all anti-Communist elements...