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Word: abandon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Washington (1909), rose to plead for going on. "Of course many fellow Americans find it difficult to grasp what is happening in China today," he said. "All the more reason why we, who know the importance of free China, should keep up our work. To abandon it is to abandon our own conscience." He paused, clutched his chest and fell dead of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Friends of China | 2/27/1956 | See Source »

David Wayne tries to restore some of the whimsey which Uncle Daniel lost in the transition from the short story to the play. He acts with an abandon very funny to watch, adopting a southern accent just sugary enough to be humorous without becoming cloying. His manner is full of comical inventions, except for some distracting gestures. But even Wayne, for all his talent, cannot make Daniel Ponder anything more than a pitiful, lost child...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: The Ponder Heart | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...company agreed to abandon its rental-only rule. Most important of all-IBM would make available at "a reasonable royalty" all its current patents and those it acquires in the field of electronics m the next five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Patents for All | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

January 15, 1954: Furry and Kamin both appear before McCarthy. They abandon use of the Fifth Amendment and freely testify about themselves and their own Communist activities, but decline all testimony about others...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kamin, Furry Case Histories | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

Although through the years by fits and starts the Advocate has become increasingly literary in its bent, for a long while it still did not entirely abandon its motto. After the political period of the '80's, its editors merely seemed to prefer to find their danger in defending the freedom of the press--by testing the public censors with sensational (i.e., candid) stories and pornographic parodies. The first allegedly indecent story appeared in 1884, but 1894 was the year of the first major crisis, when "Kid," a story about a Harvardman and his mistress appeared...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Advocate: Danger Was Once Sweet | 2/1/1956 | See Source »

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