Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...golden ears in exhaust fumes, cocktail onions.and punched commuters' tickets, cornfed Author Richard Bissell, who came east from Iowa to write the smash Broadway hit Pajama Game, decided to abandon Connecticut's exurbian lotus groves, take a summer's furlough in his native Dubuque. His reason: "The East seems to have a corner on the phony market. These characters are afraid they might be caught not knowing something. Some of these advertising guys-real phonies-would be better off running a gas station. You've got people going to the theater here simply because they ought...
...longstanding program and adopt shortsighted economy just because they want to squelch Eisenhower." Says an Illinois leader: "Our party ought to be in there fighting to save the defense and foreign-aid budgets. The Democratic Party created the Eisenhower security policies, and we should fight for them now, not abandon what is right for the sake of fast politics...
...constitutes a protection for the innocent" -that, according to Hook, is "far from conclusive until we know to what extent ... the guilty profit by it." The fact that in Anglo-American law a man is presumed innocent until proved guilty does not mean that his fellow citizens must abandon their common-sense judgments -"the common sense of the moral tradition of the Western world"-about his actions...
...turned out such men as Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, Senator Arthur Watkins and U.S. Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland (one of Franklin Roosevelt's "nine old men"), it fell on such hard times during the Depression that some trustees wondered whether the church should not abandon it. By 1943 enrollment had dropped from 2,000 to 800; facultymen were so hard to find, says one alumnus, that "you could be attending class with a fellow one quarter and find that he was your teacher the next." Though the G.I. Bill started it on the road to recovery...
...opportunity to participate in campus activities." The presidents of the two leading service organizations, the Cowboys and the Silver Spurs, recommended that students boycott the opera. "We wonder," said the presidents, "if, in order to qualify as one of Representative Chapman's 'loyal Texans,' we must abandon our religious heritage as Christians and Jews, and our political heritage as Americans." Meanwhile, angry letters flooded the student Daily Texan. One alumnus wrote that he was "deeply ashamed." Said another reader: "It makes me sick to my stomach...