Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burma: Gained independent international stature by its willingness to abandon neutralist caution, and boldly declare its opposition to Communist assaults at home and abroad...
...emphasized the need for better long-range policy planning, which the President recognized last week when he began to realign his foreign-policy staff. It remained for doubting friends to realize that a U.S. that acted with the sureness displayed since the start of 1956'$ crisis would never abandon its world mission for order and justice...
...moral authority-U.N. Secretary-General Hammarskjold and his flea-sized army appeared Lilliputian figures alongside the forces they were to keep apart (the Anglo-French invasion force alone was 50,000 strong). In Egypt the puny army must somehow ensure that two of the greatest nations in Europe abandon with grievous loss of face a last-ditch attempt to dominate a region of the world vital to their survival as major powers...
Opened last March, the cafe was operated until October by Patricia Osnos, who decided to abandon it when she was considering returning to school. She rented the cafe from Benny Jacobson, owner of the building, and is selling the Capriccio's name, furnishings, and appliances for about...
...with The Lone Ranger, NBC with Guy Lombardo and CBS with Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. (But CBS did carry the late session until closing.) And for the most part, both of the nation's biggest networks, which each week toss around gobs of sponsor dough with reckless abandon, carried the U.N. during cheap, second-rate time slots when their affiliates across the country were not contract-bound to carry the programs...