Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like all Algerians working in France, the footballeurs had been regularly visited by F.L.N. collectors who took a 15% bite of their salaries and bonuses to support the rebellion. But no one had imagined that the F.L.N. was powerful enough to make the players throw up good jobs, abandon their homes, and give up such sideline business as bars and bistros. The flight may not have been pure patriotism, but it was far from kidnaping. The exodus, with its complicated movement of wives and children, luggage and refrigerators and washing machines, was elaborately planned over a long period of time...
Marjorie Morningstar (Warner) speeds up the plot of Herman Wouk's bestseller, but the telling still takes a long 123 minutes. Though Marjorie (Natalie Wood) is deprived of that mad moment of youthful abandon with her lover (Gene Kelly), she at least avoids ending up with grey hair, suburbia and a stuffy lawyer. Instead she goes up to re-examine the summer resort South Wind, spends a few minutes staring at the still irresponsible Kelly, and decides to leave him and his world forever. "Say, you've really grown up, haven't you," says the resort manager...
...glittering like a gold thread in sunlight . . . the echo felt like a kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense of release shared by boy and reader alike, the boy is ready to abandon his grey world of failing sight for the luminous realm of pure sound...
...Athanassios, still a bachelor, had learned that Soultana was married and living in the village of Mavrodendri. He left his business and rushed off to Greece. But, fearing that "it would be hard for Soultana to abandon the little ones," Athanassios returned to Detroit. In January of this year, Soultana dispatched a telegram: COME AND MEET ME AT VERROIA RAILROAD STATION OR I WILL TAKE POISON. They met and eloped...
...Psychologist Ernest Dichter, specialist in motivational research-"MR" to Madison Avenue clients (TIME, May 13)-probed the motives of both doctor and patient, told a forum of 1,000 physicians in Washington that they should abandon the "father image" role of the old-style family doctor. Dichter advised: "Accept the fact that today's patient has grown up and can read current medical articles," and treat him more as an equal. This goes for fees, too: the doctor should quit thinking of himself as a saint, admit frankly that he has to be a businessman. "Patients resent having fees...