Word: abandon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage. "Thirteen years later," said the young Laborite, "one of the children went out into the world . . . and, indeed, is today a Member of this House." At this dramatic point, as his fellow parliamentarians pricked up their ears, Ron Ledger added...
...Alas! says Cadart, life is not so easy. The peaceable snail has a host of enemies: the weather, rats, turtles, crows, foxes, ducks, parasitic insects that lay eggs in its flesh, and picnickers who abandon bits of canned heat, which is death to snails. When Cadart has described all the troubles of les escargots, he is close to tears...
...orthodox Shakespearean will be moved by Author Hoffman to abandon his established belief-that Christopher Marlowe was the great pioneer who explored the unknown continent of Elizabethan drama, and that William Shakespeare, following after, bulldozed and occupied that realm with a power and majesty far beyond the strength of his doughty predecessor. Some of Author Hoffman's parallelisms are interesting contributions to Shakespearean scholarship. For the rest. The Murder of the Man Who Was "Shakespeare" confirms but one thing-that profound snobbery is the main weakness of all anti-Shakespeareans. Deep-rooted in all Baconians, Oxonians, Marlovians, of every...
...Boston. 583 voting delegates to the 130th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association heard a report of a committee appointed last year to study the thorny question of whether Unitarians have any business making resolutions on non-church matters. "To abandon the practice now," the report decided, "could be interpreted as a move of caution or expediency ... in the present climate of opinion adverse to free speech, heretical views and diversity of opinion. " One of the "hazards" of being a Unitarian, according to the report, is that Unitarians believe in "work for the kingdom of God." and that kingdom...
Like almost everyone else in Washington, the Russian ambassador doubted that the Red government would last very long. On the advice of the U.S. State Department, he refused to recognize the new regime and refused also to abandon his mission. To each member of his staff, however, he gave the free choice of either returning home or remaining as part of the "embassy without a government." Karpovich, like all but one of the other representatives, decided to stay...