Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese Communists and Chinese Nationalists. While holding out what may or may not be an olive branch, Peng also turned the sword in a new wound. "The Americans are bound to go," he said to the Nationalists. "They have to go. The day will come when the Americans will abandon...
...intends to stop Communist aggression wherever it breaks out. "These offshore islands do not constitute the ideal defensive position," the Secretary admitted dryly, but neither does West Berlin. "Berlin is militarily indefensible. It is a small island of freedom totally surrounded by Soviet power. But we do not abandon it on that account. Nevertheless, the U.S. and its allies have risked war and stand committed today to risk war rather than surrender Berlin...
Still, a grim alternative remains. Governor Almond expressed it yesterday, interpreting the recent Little Rock decision as saying "to the states that they must totally abandon not only free public schools where they cannot be operated on an integrated basis, but that they must not render any affirmative assistance to parents who will not send their children to racially mixed schools." The only way for a state to prevent mixed schools is to withdraw absolutely from the field of secondary education...
...Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, in a letter to President Eisenhower, issued a virtual ultimatum that the U.S. must withdraw its forces from Formosa Strait, abandon not only Quemoy and Matsu but Formosa as well-or be faced by the combined might of Russia and Red China...
Withdrawal of Council support, in this regard, would sever all official College relations with other universities and deprive undergraduates of the opportunity to participate in the formulation of policy which affects them in a vital and worthwhile way. For the Council, a vote to abandon the NSA would mean the loss of whatever perspective and stature it enjoys as a member of a larger and national organization...