Word: abandon
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...would do well to go along with most of the rest of the civilized world (Russia and the U.S. are now the main holdouts), abandon the rest of such foreign names and call our wines after the California valleys and New York State lakes from which they come, rather than after French villages (Chablis, Sauternes), German rivers and the like...
...refused them the crucial Ministries of War, Foreign Affairs and Interior. Finally, one cold day in January 1946, the general called in his Cabinet and announced: "You espoused the quarrels of your various parties. It is not this way that I understand things ... I have therefore resolved to abandon office . . . My resolution is not subject to discussion." As De Gaulle walked away, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez broke the stupefied silence. "This departure does not lack grandeur." he said...
Director Wallmann started out as a ballet dancer, had to abandon her career when she fell through a trap door on the Vienna opera stage and broke her hip. She turned to choreography, gradually took on opera-directing chores, is now one of the most sought-after directors in Europe. She is an ardent admirer but not a disciple of Felsenstein, believes that his coldly analytical visions have no place in Milan's mistily sentimental house. Between them, Directors Felsenstein and Wallmann have done much to restore Puccini's fire-and-ice masterpiece to the fame it deserves...
Ringing phrases about defending Berlin made the headlines from NATO's Ministerial Council meeting in Paris last week. "We cannot abandon the 2,500,000 people of West Berlin," said NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak, "without preparing the way for surrender in Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and all the way across Europe...
...hand over their entire salaries to the party, which then pays their taxes for them and doles back to all but the bigwigs as little as $143 a month apiece. Losing this steady income from the government it sought to overthrow, the Communist Party last week decided to economize, abandon three of its money-losing regional newspapers...