Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer a hindrance to Germany's diplomatic maneuvering. High-placed German Christian Democrats, once the election is past, hope to take the diplomatic and economic offensive in Eastern Europe. Their best bet is to establish friendly ties with Poland, and their best means is to abandon some of the German claims to what is now Polish territory. Should this ever come to pass, the Kremlin would be put on the spot-asked to answer why Russia was still hanging onto former Polish soil...
Panicking, the government last month ordered Mother Veronica to close her school. For one long, sleepless night she wrestled with the spirit of defiance. By 6 a.m. Mass, defiance had won. "I won't abandon my girls to illiteracy," said she. "They won't get my little girls unless they overrun me by brute force...
...into action. "Good news has come from the Soviet Union," crowed East Germany's Neues Deutschland. "The most powerful weapon ever developed is in good hands." Communist diplomats haughtily brushed aside the latest Western proposals on disarmament (see FOREIGN NEWS), instead threatened U.S. allies and warned them to abandon U.S. bases. The new missile, said Moscow radio, "is a gigantic step forward that ought to cool off the hotheads...
...painting hopes never ceased to rankle. "Alas," the artist-inventor wrote to his friend Cooper, "the very name of pictures produces a sadness of heart I cannot describe. Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me. I did not abandon her; she abandoned me. I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches...
Exquisitely shaped, the vases show the ancient Greeks as they were, their manlike gods and godlike men, their moments of joy and ecstasy, of heroism and erotic abandon. Whether they portray an Olympic race, a night on the town or a musician lost in his art (opposite), the figures have a bouncy, springlike energy that most observers find irresistible...